“YOU CAN’T JUST TELL EVERYONE TO LEAVE FACEBOOK”
“While social media addiction likely plays a role in this, leaving the platform is about more than just preferences: Facebook may be required for someone’s job, the only way to keep in touch with far-flung family and friends, or simply the cheapest and easiest way to connect with like-minded individuals…
Like the larger slow-living movement, slow-tech encourages people to re-adopt behaviors that used to be ordinary and unavoidable. But, like shopping at a farmers market or growing food in an urban garden, these behaviors are now less convenient and more expensive than newer options; thus, the people likely to adopt them have at least some extra time and cash to burn.
These movements also emphasize personal choice and discipline as solutions to systemic problems caused by the profit motivations of large corporations…
Facebook is even more firmly entrenched with users in its newer markets in Southeast Asia and Africa. And this is by design: Facebook has aggressively pursued them through initiatives to bring affordable internet access to places that lack it.”
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