Disclaimer: While I have certainly vented my share of explitive-saturated frustrations about it, I am not, on a personal level (or at least not at this moment), overly critical of people who enjoy what are user-friendly and, really, the default cultural platforms for social media. (I get it.)

I also reserve the right to regret posting this.

But I’m just throwing this out there:

I have been soapboxing all things anti-Facebook for close to 15 years now and FWIW: none of the arguments I was making 15 years ago have changed — and no new ones have been added.

Neither symbolic Tech Bro pocket-change donations nor some commercially driven virtue-signaling on a certain “manly“ virtue-signaling podcast amount to anything truly new. In my view, these are hardly more than — to borrow and slightly bastardize a line from William James — “the mere trapping and decoration of the surface-show.”

That said, do continue the evacuation. (Just don’t forget who owns the real social media darling.)🙂