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Goodbye Meta (Facebook)

Of all the companies I didn't really enjoy using the products of, Meta (Formerly Facebook) would have to be top of the list.  Facebook went from useful to quite awful to use. Remember when you used to see a feed of your friend's activities, not some random "influencer/news/personality/short video?  I have used Facebook since 2009, and watched it grow from a semi-useful social media website to an utterly deranged feed of nonsense, AI generated content, or just biased slop, continually fed into your face so you can't put it down.  It's like a large septic tank full of misinformation, clout chasing pages, false science, false religion, and sometimes some cute pet photos. It's a septic tank that everyone's diving in to look for a lost ring or diamond in, everyone inadvertently making it that much worse for everyone else. Government spying is getting worse, (not that there's much I can do). A government might (but likely doesn't, and shouldn't) have ...

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