This is a clarifying moment. It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is.

[Celerity]

I will post screenshots, to click on the links, go on the thread at the link right below

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1265988524043616263.html

[The Magistrate]

1. A Damning Indictment, Ma'am

The mixture of arrogance and libertarianism is lethal. It would do this wretch too much credit to suggest he does this from cowardice. Basically, he agrees with the swill he allows to flood his platform.

[Mike 03]

2. Outstanding post

[hunter]

3. Facebook is kin to traditional television in my life.

Perhephial to reality.

There's no broadcast, cable, or satellite television in our house.

I can peek in on various social media but I don't like it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Kicked

[C_U_L8R]

5. Curiously, there's a ton of Russian money in Facebook

And some pretty shady connections.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor

[empedocles]

6. Seems like a huge tell.

[Celerity]

8. +100000

[demosincebirth]

7. He screwed two friends of his when he started Facebook.

That should tell you what a greedy fucker he is.

[Squinch]

9. And still, people support ALL of this by using Facebook. If you use Facebook, you are

supporting this.

[Celerity]

10. I joined FB in 2009, when I turned 13, deleted my account in the fall of 2011

as I had developed an aversion to it and I also had serious privacy concerns. I remember stumbling across an old cartoon in 2011 from late 2006 or 2007, where is was a room full of US CIA and NSA people, who (I think some huge scandal had just come out about them snooping on Americans in the mid-noughties) where sitting around pondering about how would they now get people to willingly (as they could not spy on them anymore clandestinely) give up all there person info, daily whereabouts, habits, interests, friends, etc etc, and in ran a fresh-faced Zuckerberg saying, (I am paraphrasing) 'Do I have something to show YOU!!!'

I still have a 2009 Twitter (the very first Tweet ever was March 21, 2006, and Twitter was publicly launched July 15, 2006) account that I only use to read Twitter.

I also have a 2009 YouTube (YT launched April 23, 2005) account, and a Whatsapp (first released January 2009, the main 2.0 version was launched in August, 2009) account. I also have a reddit account (launched late June, 2005) since 2009 as well.

I never did Instagram (launched July 16, 2010), Pinterest (launched March 15th, 2010), Snapchat (launched as Picaboo on July 8, 2011, rebranded as Snapchat in September 2011), Flickr (launched February 10, 2004), Tumblr (launched February 1st, 2007), LinkedIn (launched May 5, 2003), Viber (launched December 2, 2010), Dischord (launched May 13, 2015), or WeChat (launched January 21, 2011.)

I also refuse to use TikTok (launched in China in September 2016, globally September 2017) due to even worse security concerns than I have with Facebook. Same for Telegram (launched 14 August 2013), which is Russian run, and the owners can access your shit, as although it does have client-server encryption, the network developers have encryption keys. Telegram and Gab (launched on August 15, 2016) are littered with white power Nazis and alt-right scum world-wide.

I also do not use Messenger, aka the old Facebook Chat, which was gradually released to users in April 2008. Facebook revamped its messaging platform in November 2010 and subsequently acquired group messaging service Beluga in March 2011, which the company used to launch its standalone mobile apps on August 9, 2011 (I quit FB a month or two after that).

Friendster, (launched in March 2003), hi5 (launched in June 2003), and MySpace (launched in August 2003), were all before my time (their heydays.)

[vercetti2021]

24. I remember hi5

Like that was the time in between Myspace and Friendster. I also think zynaga was in there somewhere. Think I was around 13 or so at that time lol

[Celerity]

25. We must be pretty close in age, I was born in 1996, so was 6 and 7 in 2003.

[vercetti2021]

26. Yeah nice to see another person around the same age

So I'm assuming you're 23 or 24. I was born in 1990. I'll be 30 this coming month

[Celerity]

31. yes! we are around 6 years apart, and pretty rare (age-wise) here

[secondwind]

11. Time to get off Facebook

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. godDAMMIT.

I post political stuff on FB all the time, it’s kind of my social outlet. Now, I could puke!
I feel deeply conflicted. (It gets rather lonely here at chez Splanchnik)

[snort]

13. I found a solution:

Don't use facebook.

[empedocles]

18. A facebook alternative/competitor is needed

Just the threat would smash upside zuck's head.

[paleotn]

14. Great post....

Exactly why I don't venture into that sewer anymore. Ever wonder why most of the jackasses who get fired for posting inflammatory crap on social media use Facebook? It's turned into the go to forum for religo-nuts and middle aged psychos.

[totodeinhere]

15. And yet the Republicans like to say that social media is biased against them.

Of course nothing could be further form the truth.

[Boomerproud]

30. Just another Big Lie they've been spreading for

decades.

[firstwife]

16. Yesterday I deactivated my Facebook account.

The last stunts by Zuckerberg, plus how the site has devolved into a feed of ads and bots. I decided to deactivate because I can stay in touch with all my contacts on Instant Messenger, and that was the only way to keep it. I was being sucked in and feeling consumed and frustrated. I’m still on Instagram, which is fine. I fucking hate Mark Zuckerberg.

[dalton99a]

17. A timely and informative thread.

[kimbutgar]

19. If you saw that movie about him and the creation of Facebook you knew already he was a

Little prick. I just want to know how his Asian wife and biracial children are going to be treated in the future?

I went back to FB during the Pandemic to keep in touch with friends and report all the political propaganda as spam and offensive. The ads for MF45 automatically get reported and hidden.

[OMGWTF]

21. I report the Trump ads as "offensive."

[SBoy]

20. My Facebook Account was hacked last Sunday

And I can’t change my password because they never send the access code required to do so. When I request sending the code to another email address I occasionally use, they wanted me to send them a picture of my Drivers License. That’s utterly ridiculous. They have no Customer Service to call or write. What a mess. I mainly use it to participate in my College’s basketball fan club page, otherwise I’d quit Facebook.
And Suckerberg tried to buy Kauai like Larry Ellison did on Lanai, but was totally rebuked by the locals and the State Government of Hawaii.

[Mr.Bill]

22. I have never looked at facebook for even five seconds

in my entire life. Trust me, you can live without it.

[Warpy]

23. I have steadfastly avoided that sewer of a web site

because I realize his business plan was data mining everybody who signed up to keep in touch with the grandchildren and so on. I found the whole concept evil. I was unsurprised it was instrumental in allowing Putin's people to trash the US election in 2016.

I am just beyond weary with people who still cling to it. There are other ways to keep in touch, ways that don't allow foreign governments to target people with false advertising and bogus "news" stories, not to mention barraging them with corporate advertising.

I wish sensible people would just let it go. Let Zuckerberg's far right lunatics have it, all of it. Let them be targeted and manipulated, they live for that stuff. There are other ways to do the same things. Maybe they're a little less convenient, but it's time to explore them.

[Trailrider1951]

27. File this under the topic

"It's all bullshit."





Wait! I need a much better example!

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[Celerity]

32. what is bullshit? TIA

[Trailrider1951]

42. Facebook

It's all BS. It's all fake. There is no substance here.

[rockfordfile]

28. Maddow should do something on this. Facebook is a un-American company

[JudyM]

33. K&R.

[benld74]

34. Honestly, I've never seen advertising on my FB

[Cha]

35. :( Zucker has chosen his place in history with

that heinous display of Weaselly BULLSHIT.

TY, Judd Legum & Celerity.

[Celerity]

36. Zuck is a ratfucker, he is helping destroy the nation, zero hyperbole

[Cha]

39. Oh yeah.. we don't ever need any "hyperbole"..

it's all too awfully true just as it is.

I can't understand why he's backing the Impeached Traitor Right Out in the OPEN. Wth does he think that's gonna do for him?

[Celerity]

40. billions of dollars in extra profits, and ever closer to systemic political power centres

He knows the left and non political will not leave (many on the left will stay to fight the RW, so its a free-for-all brawl draw, like Twitter), and then he knows the RW will pay him billions and/or earn him billions with their goon magnet posts and groups and payoffs to Zuck McRatFuck.

[Cha]

41. Zucker has sold his soul to the

devil... metaphorically speaking

[Celerity]

43. yep, and almost all of my truly internet active life (I was 7 when FB launched) has been with

it as monster force. I joined in 2009, when I turned 13, but deleted my account in fall 2011, as I had privacy issues and concerns, and I just was over the whole thing. I am the fairly rare Zennial (cusp of Millenial and Gen Z) who hates most social media. I detest FB, I think Twitter is a sewer full of thug trolls for hire, but I do use it for news gathering.

[Fla Dem]

37. I know a lot of people use FB to stay in touch with family and friends, but....

It’s time to stop supporting this propaganda machine. Mark Zuckerberg has been a self centered ego maniac since his days at Harvard and probably before. He’s an intelligent Trump. He doesn’t care about the country, all he cares about is that the Trump campaign is pouring millions into his company.

[Celerity]

38. +100000 great description of Zuck McRatfuck

[Faux pas]

44. ...

Zuck Fuckerberg