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This is a pretty bananas take that conflates people caring with their technology-related behavior.

Most people don't have problems with Facebook. It's useful for them, and they don't consider the bigger picture because they're not in tech and they have more important things taking up their attention.

Now you swoop in and say "Facebook is evil, and if you don't get off of it, I'll cut you out of my life!" In that scenario, you're the one who doesn't care about the relationship, not them - you're the one that won't get off your high horse. You could make a minimalistic FB profile that has no information and use it to exchange messages and reply to event invitations. But instead you demand that they change their behaviors in order to support your moral imperative. That's your prerogative, but it is ridiculous to think your relationship is pretend as a result.

Also, to be clear, you're the only one here talking about a relationship that consists of a few likes on Facebook. Everyone else is talking about a broader set of interactions, like using Messenger to chat and sharing photos with each other.




You don't have to get on a soapbox and pontificate about the evil of Facebook. Just say "sorry, I'm not on Facebook."


Signing up for a facebook account takes less than a minute to do. Not having an account is a tiny hurdle to get over.


Yeah but then they are asking you to do something, rather than you asking them.


> Now you swoop in and say "Facebook is evil, and if you don't get off of it, I'll cut you out of my life!"

I said no such thing, and I'd thank you not to put words in my mouth. As I explained in a different subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131334




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