cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25911857

I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck’s shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.

  • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I quit Facebook the first Trump presidency. The reason was I didn’t want to hate my Grandma. In most ways she’s a sweet old woman but goddamn, get the woman started talking about politics and she becomes a nazi.

    I wanted to pretend that part of her didn’t exist and I couldn’t stay on Facebook without calling this kind of stuff out for her and everyone else in my family who are all Trump supporters causing lots of drama in my life. For the sake of family peace, I quit and never looked back.

    Never even started Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok.

    All I did in the meanwhile was Reddit which was nice because it was all anonymous, but got permabanned there for being a little too supportive of my boy Luigi. So now I’m here.