The power of Instagram/Facebook
When you depend on friends instagram updates to know when it's their birthdays, it sucks when they decide to remove the social apps.
Which I had. A couple of days after Christmas I had enough. I started scrolling and scrolling and before I knew it, it was 4 am and I was absolutely exhausted.
Enough was enough. Instagram had to go.
It's at these times that you understand why creators of these platforms forbid their own kids from having the sites they created. They know how extremely addicitve they are, and one you start, it's difficult to stop.
On top of that, they are a killer for productivity.
If you think about it, it's kind of a trap.
So I removed instagram and am considering removing Facebook.
The same way you can tell a lot about a person from who their friends are, you can tell a lot about a platform & business by who their owners are, and the people using their services.
In this case (Facebook/Instagram), the owners:
1. Think it's a good idea (or reallize exactly how damage this will make) to remove fact checking.
2. Create algorithms designed to feed people's existing racist and sometimes factually wrong ideas.
- With great power comes great responsibility. Stan Lee was a wise man.
3. Throw money at a world leader with such openly racist and harmful viest. A dictator masking as a leader of the so-called "free world", when this particular free world is systematically limiting the rights of non-white people and women.
And on the other side, their users accept everything served to them on a silver platter.
Everything not aligned with your views is fake news - how can you not believe it when the freaking president says it.
The boys club of Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump - is honestly kind of embarrassing/scary in equal portions. So everything and anything related to the club feels like a swipe to the left.
- and don't even get me started on tesla. As you can understand, I am not a fan.
What ever happend to: those who have the power and opportunity also have the responsibility to take action.
- Somehow, year 2025 this has gotten lost as the owner of a gold toilet (cause that's a good idea?), once again took his seat in the White House. How??? Why?? I have no words. The world is insane. But hey, c'est la vie.
So yes, I am off social media and today is my birthday! :) Yay!