Re: <nettime> Facebook

About eight and a half months ago I quit Facebook and all social media. My reasons are given here:

https://medium.com/@premckar/a-farewell-to-social-media-33db26074498

Having said that, I echo the sentiments expressed by many in response to your question: namely that Facebook is a highly flawed system, but useful in many aspects. So it must be a platform that must be viewed with a critical discernment, and not taken too seriously at times. I still miss some of the benefits people have listed in this thread, but the sum total still made me quit. So as I note at the end of my essay, if it was a farewell, it was a restless farewell.

Best,

Prem

On 03-Nov-2019, at 9:58 PM, Frederic Neyrat <fneyrat@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (?) network.

This article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-politics-republicans-right
is not the reason of my email, but its occasion.

Thanks in advance for your light on this matter,

Frederic Neyrat

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