Melpomene

If they weren't too busy trying to avoid being systematically slaughtered by the CCP, yes.

Not at all.

Facebook is only as necessary as you make it. I've not had an account since 2018 and aside from the occasional inconvenience I have been perfectly fine. This idea that we need Meta in our lives is laughably ridiculous.

If a professor is using Facebook v. the academic platform provided by the school, they're 100% in the wrong.

If I go to an office with a huge queue and they're not professional enough to have set up a website then why, exactly, would I trust them with my money? That shows a lack of business sense given that Facebook could destroy their entire model on a whim.

I've never been "friends" with thousands of people. If I had 100 people on Facebook, I maybe spent real world time with a dozen and we did have phone numbers so...

That's the behavior I notice as well, the deflection. "Well you can't criticize my support of ethnic cleansing and genocide because you support free expression and Nazis speak, therefore you're a Nazi!"

I was in this boat too. Gave it some thought and realized that if my "friend" group was so uninterested in including me that none of then could be bothered to shoot me a text, then... they weren't really my friends in the first place.

It is absolutely propaganda. I do enjoy that I'm getting downvoted for sharing this trash heap of a take from the UK though.

Sharing because even a number of doctors I've spoken to do not seem to be up-to-date on the possibility of an delayed onset, extended bout of long COVID. In other news, your sometimes pal Mel has been dealing with this nonsense since April.

Simply put, no. You can make the claim but it doesn't make it true.

Even if it were true, fuck the biggest pirate of them all, Google itself.