this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
561 points (98.6% liked)
Memes
45715 readers
1093 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Social media companies have worked so hard to become walled gardens and have vastly succeeded. Someone naive is like “hey check out this meme” and it’s a facebook, or instagram, or toktik, or twixxxer link that requires a profile before you can can see the content so they can start to demographically align you toward the bulk data they want to advertise toward.
I deleted pretty much all social media years ago, but I stuck it out with Reddit until they fucked over third party app devs. It’s wild to this day how much of my family is surprised that I don’t have a Facebook account
Yup, pretty much my whole family uses Facebook. Well, mom doesn't but she uses Instagram which is the same as Facebook but for images
Even my younger sister has Facebook, what has this world become