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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:21:54 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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   • 🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

   @MichaelPorter several members of my family (including me) don't use Facebook and there's no one channel through which we all communicate. I worried about it at first. But one of my brothers who left Facebook before me said: if it's important, they'll contact you. If not, it's usually okay if you don't see the Facebook posts.

   Old-fashioned phone calls and text messages have become a thing again in my family, and I quite like it.

   It would be nice to have a single platform we all agree on where we can have a group chat, but I have a big family and it hasn't happened yet. So I try to be chill about it, and reach out to people individually more than I used to.

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     🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦 (michaelporter@ottawa.place)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:21:55 JST 🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

     All the recent news about Meta has me determined to start some serious arm-twisting with my family.

     Can anyone point me to a good, non-paywalled summary of the crap they are engaging in? Something I can pass along to non-tech types?

     Also, I suspect this won't have the most satisfactory answers, but what are the easy alternatives for those non-techy types?

     Facebook → ?
     Instagram → ?
     WhatsApp → ? (Signal? The big trick with these is that you need your intended message recipient on the same platform, too, no?)

     I'm going to be at a big family dinner in a few weeks... might be a good time to get the message out to the group, so they can coordinate.

     Any help/advice is appreciated!

     #meta #SocialMedia #LGBTQIA #DeleteFacebook #Facebook