Lol? Lmao, even?

I'm tired

having been on facebook since ~2009 it was undeniably hard to quit, but finally deleting it (not 'deactivating') last year was one of the best things i've ever done for my mental health

They failed making VR, so now they're a defense contractor for AR. Wonderful.

Pyro goggles with Disney filter.

All military personnel will require Facebook accounts to use Meta AR goggles.

Man fuck that company to death. Fuck them
so hard. We need the people to see this for what it is and do something. CEO’s aren’t bulletproof.

I'm just surprised they weren't before.

What do people do there that is so harmful to their mental health? I just follow what relatives are up to and read the latest hobby/town gossip

pretty much that

No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like... your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it's like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I'm including any social network where "me" is the main focus.

I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.

google "facebook mental health" and you'll get an idea. if you're fine using it, that's great. but not everyone is like you. and the "i'm fine with this--everyone else should be too!" attitude is one thing i saw constantly on facebook.

edit: notice in my original comment i spoke of my own experience, not anyone else's, nor what anyone else should spend their time and attention on

I was asking what everyone else is doing there, not saying everyone should be fine with it. Geez.

I wonder if people have shittier relatives or live in a shittier town hah

lol sorry, "i'm fine with this-- whatever you're doing must be wrong"

Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn't exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They "do their own research", of course.

So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people's lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that's depressing.

Nowadays I think it's all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That's about it.

It seems like you're trying to find a reason to be upset about my question tbh