alt Hacker NewsCan we just, I mean just stop using and caring about most social media. Especially facebook, it offers no meaningful value. It's slow, obtuse and haven't made life better for anyone in the last decade I suppose.
Maybe whatsapp has some use, but otherwise what's even the point. I don't even have ads on whatsapp not yet anyways, I will get my family to switch when they do.
I don't care about you Meta/Facebook or whatever it is.
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> Maybe whatsapp has some use
WhatsApp is a real hard breakup in much of the world. It's the defacto standard for communication around here, and even a bunch of businesses use it exclusively. One can hope the EU will eventually mandate unlimited SMS on cellphone plans, but I don't see WhatsApp being dethroned another way
Easier said than done. You're still here, which is understandable since Hacker News is by far the most addictive one.
The problem is it that it has a helluva lot of momentum from normies. Easily enough to outweigh the resistance of the likes of you and me.
The only thing will break it is a better / easier alternative. And with enough success that will probably turn into the next big bad.
You could make a similar noble call for everyone to just stop using cigarettes in 1950.
It would not work. What ultimately worked were laws designed to curb tobacco use combined with public education campaigns.