• CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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          True. But I would be shocked — shocked, I say! — at a person who has FB but not a phone, email, nor postal address.

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        Yeah, a lot of people want to video call across phone oses. Like FaceTime works for iphone but not Android.

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            n…no? It’s like saying to a person who wants to watch a movie, what about a book? Does reading work? Like no, not really. Not even close.

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              You must not be that interested in staying in contact with your family if you’re only willing to use one, specific way to do it and simply refuse to use any other method.

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          My mom lives in a different country, is retired and can very easily use Signal to msg me and do video calls. She has no technical education, and is not very good with the devices. But… she could install Signal and use it every day.

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            Congrats, one data point doesn’t define a statistic. Equally, I have family who only use Messenger and can barely work with that. So from my statement, these people exist, even if it’s just my family. I know I’ve seen a lot of similar experiences but even just my direct family is enough to justify me stating that just not using facebook doesn’t work for everyone.

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              TIL. I haven’t been on Facebook in so many years that I didn’t know this. Still, given how many good alternatives are out there, it doesn’t seem like a good reason to keep using Facebook.

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                It’s a way to connect with people who only have Facebook accounts and don’t want to deal with moving or figuring out another account. Someone will pipe up and say “yeah well my 102 year old grandma figured out signal!” yeah, well good for her, she’s largely the exception. People want something simple, that works, that will be around in 10 years.