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It's a communication tool, just like email, phone and letters. "Using" it does not have to mean you're on it for hours a day. My main purpose for using it is to keep in contact with people who live far away from me, and to organize meeting up with people who live near me. I find it strange that you think that makes me "weak."

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> It's a communication tool, just like email, phone and letters.

Except that it's a public company that makes money selling your data to advertisers. It's a very important difference compared to letters, phone or (to a certain extent) email.

Except it doesn't actually sell your data to advertisers. It gives advertisers the ability to target people with certain types of data for a limited amount of time. They don't deliver your data to them.

I sincerely hate the term "selling data". No one "sells data". It's a term I think people use because it sounds scarier.

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