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Society has always been manipulated. Facebook has nothing on religions for example.

The real question is whether an individual checking out from Facebook harms themselves in some way e.g. less able to find work? We just need to make sure Facebook never gets endorsement as some kind of identity / passport.




> Society has always been manipulated.

True. And people have always murdered each other. But when millions of people are murdering each other we call it war.

My body is fighting some millions of germs right now. If you add an order of magnitude or two to that I'll be sick. Or dead.

A camel can carry a lot of straw. Enough straw can crush a camel.

At some point we have to deal with the problem.


So far it hasn't harmed me, and I haven't had an active account in 8+ years. I believe this actually helps me, though I can't really quantify or prove it.




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