the people you’re defending are working for a corporation that deliberately hooks its users into a fascist sympathizing skinner box in order to surveil them, harvest their PII, and sell it to whoever has the money for it
as the commenter said above: fuck them
i don’t, for one second, buy the “i work for facebook because i had no other choice” argument
there are a lot of tech companies
it’s true though. look up “depression glass collection”
actually savvy business choice. saving money on color ink, and people will buy extra for collecting
my ultimate goal (wildly ambitious, i’m aware) is to not use the internet for anything except paying bills, buying things i need but can’t get locally, and getting news. and research, if i need to buy something expensive that i don’t know anything about. i think blogging could be a productive thing, but i’ve never been a “i want to write an article about my thoughts” kind of person.
interesting article from ~20 years ago (even before literally everyone was on social media) about this topic
https://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html
the psychological dependence is real. i get why it seems impossible for a lot of people, but yea–gotta reevaluate what’s adding value to life, and what’s wasting time at best, and causing harm at worst. noticing myself getting angry at all the stupid on fb was a big factor, but also all the anti-privacy bullshit like cambridge analytica, made it easier to ditch the platform
fb was the only thing i was using. election '24 gave me the extra motivation to just delete the entire account that was sitting empty anyway. now it’s pretty much just piefed/lemmy, and will eventually delete these too
it’s not that they “don’t grasp” what you want, it’s that they couldn’t care less what you want
the way i was able to eventually delete my account was to sit down and delete everything i’d ever posted, every photo, every comment, etc. makes it easier to just say YES i want to remove this bullshit from my life altogether
i’m not, but thanks. not sure how “live out of bedroom” = “live at parents house” but whatever.
i’m doing perfectly fine with life. but i’m already on enough cameras everywhere i go, don’t need to add apple fanboi influencers/youtubers to the mix. i’ll stay in my room
no ragrets
i’m well over 45. thankfully got my “midlife crisis” out of the way in my 20s, before fullblown fascist surveillance police state happened. don’t need to go anywhere, i’m set
every day brings another reason for me to just stay in my fucking room
thank you for sharing this.
Once you realize that you are, at least partially, contributing to the problem, you make it possible to, at least partially, SOLVE the problem.
i see a lot of comments in this thread refusing to acknowledge any personal responsibility in the decisions people make regarding food, as if people have absolutely no choice but to say “i ate a salad yesterday, so today i’m going to order a triple chocolate lava murder cheesecake”-- which is easy to do when you’ve adopted the mindset of “oh well, i have chemical imbalance, can’t help it”
people are of course free to do what they want with their own bodies. but i think saying that 99% of obese people have no choice about what they put in their mouth is false and harmful
i mean, if you’re addicted to heroin, then at some point you’re going to have to make the conscious decision to quit. methadone, rehab, interventions–yea all that stuff can help, but it’s not going to replace people having to make decisions about whether they want to go back to the drugs again
if you insist you’re powerless, then i guess you are. best of luck to you
all this shit should have done before released to the public.
yea, but… $$$$$$$$
i thought we were leaving personal experience and anecdotal evidence out of the discussion, but since you brought it up-- yes i do know. last year i went from 230 lb (my heaviest ever) down to 180 lb. due to other health issues in addition to being way fatter than i’m comfortable with, i decided to eat better at the least, if not always “correctly.” i drastically reduced the junk, sugar, and ultraprocessed food, and did IF (poorly). those few changes brought me from a size 38 pants down to 34.
i love pizza, donuts, french fries, bacon cheeseburgers, and all the other stuff just as much as anyone. no it’s not easy to cut back on those things, and i know the pain of choosing an apple over potato chips. but i’ll say it again (and again and again): “not easy” does NOT equal impossible, and removing agency and responsibility from people is the opposite of helpful
You know, people can just choose not to have sex right?
lol are you really arguing against that sentence?
i think i’m done with this whole thread. nice talking to you all
“social factors” = “i have NO CHOICE but to eat this pie because everyone else is”
LOL ok bud.
nice talking
getting kids addicted to IG in order to feed my kids
LOL