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> They have no track record of trust.

Its worse. They have a consistent track record for asking for trust and then breaking it in most abusive way possible, then issuing a non-apology only after getting caught and then repeating same process all-over again. Oh, I forgot mentioning FB getting rich in the process, so it somehow becomes justified and has zero chance for change.

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Aren't all recorded breaches of trust (outside of admittedly predatory data collection schemes endemic to the software industry) the result of unprecedented attacks on social networks as a construct? How would one anticipate such attacks?

I think it's fair to say that Facebook grew too quickly to mitigate the issues inherent to social networks at scale. I don't think that makes them abusive or evil, just naive.

Remember the time they asked for your phone number for 2FA and then used it for contact linking?

There was that one time they conducted a study on emotion manipulation on 700,000 people without informed consent.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-...

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