Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, decided to go the route of many other disgraced companies and renamed itself. You know after lying to Congress, hiding how moderation works from its own internal Oversight Board, enabling a genocide, optimizing its products for addiction, and sharing yo momma's extremist views, they decided that what they really needed was a name change.
Honestly, I haven't really used it much since the last name change, back when it was called The Facebook. It was pretty cool back then -- essentially a rolodex that people kept updated, and it had a messenger product. Back then, there was no News Feed, and people who went and repeatedly checked pages of people they knew were essentially considered to be cyberstalkers. You weren't supposed to know every detail of people's lives. And then the News Feed came and made it expected behavior for people to stalk and to self-promote, all in the name of user engagement (read: addition). I joined a few anti-News Feed groups, but obviously it was to no avail.
And then all the bad stuff happened, as they made billions and billions of dollars, becoming the world's second largest advertising company.
So as Facebook is embarking on its new quest to forge the metaverse for profit, I'm opting out, and opting for the real world instead. I logged in, found a couple years-old messages, and decided there was nothing worth saving. Account deleted.
(Oh, and the Oculus brand is dead now too, since everything is so Meta.)
Honestly, I haven't really used it much since the last name change, back when it was called The Facebook. It was pretty cool back then -- essentially a rolodex that people kept updated, and it had a messenger product. Back then, there was no News Feed, and people who went and repeatedly checked pages of people they knew were essentially considered to be cyberstalkers. You weren't supposed to know every detail of people's lives. And then the News Feed came and made it expected behavior for people to stalk and to self-promote, all in the name of user engagement (read: addition). I joined a few anti-News Feed groups, but obviously it was to no avail.
And then all the bad stuff happened, as they made billions and billions of dollars, becoming the world's second largest advertising company.
So as Facebook is embarking on its new quest to forge the metaverse for profit, I'm opting out, and opting for the real world instead. I logged in, found a couple years-old messages, and decided there was nothing worth saving. Account deleted.
(Oh, and the Oculus brand is dead now too, since everything is so Meta.)
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto