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gave up FB in 2007. It's the most frightening application, to the point that, 100 years from now, it'll be studied the way that IG Farben and other relics of the German war machine are studied now.

But don't think you'll ever get others to leave. I've been trying since I left, and only succeded in convincing one person.

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Perhaps. The most common reason I hear cited for my own friends not wanting to leave Facebook is: "Oh, I only use it to keep in touch with people, you know, distant family and stuff." They then proceed to scroll for hours through an endless feed of painstakingly fabricated memories and memes.

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