This consolidation of power is a dream come true for the Big Tech platforms, but it’s a nightmare for users. While the megacorporations get more traffic and a whole lot more user data (read: profit), users are left with far fewer community options and a bland, corporate surveillance machine instead of a vibrant public sphere. The internet we all fell in love with is a diverse and colorful place, full of innovation, connection, and unique opportunities for self-expression. That internet—our internet—is worth defending.
Then you dont ever get to complain. You have other options, but its too hard for you, so youd rather just contribute to pissing away freedoms and privacy. Its because of people like you, who wont put up with even a little discomfort, that we are where we are. They keep pushing, and people like just keep on saying “OK”.
If we are ever to stop this increasingly vile push to have us be endlessly profiled, its unfortunately going to have to be people like you that finally grow a fucking back bone. So yeah, we’re fucked…
Yes, instead of buying secondhand, he should buy new items at Walmart, Target, and Amazon. 🙄
Yes, facebook marketplace is the only way to buy things second hand… Could you be more perpetually online???
We do have “op shops” which are like a charity that sells clothes and toys that have been donated to them.
We do buy a lot of stuff from these places, and visit almost every week. The thing is, the range of stuff is very limited. For example, they might have a dozen shirts for toddlers, all in different sizes, so at best you get one shirt.
We dont really have “car boot” markets or flea markets here. We have farmers markets for fresh produce but not second hand items.
We have a toy library where I volunteer once a month. This is an amazing resource and our kids always have different toys that are really well used by loads of kids. It really is great.
The thing is, Toddlers grow quick, and they’re pretty gross, so you have to change shirts several times a day. Realistically you need 12 shirts, which they will ruin or outgrown in a few months.
On fb marketplace, any day of the week, there’s people selling boxes of kids clothes for a few dollars, all the same size. Every few months you box up everything thats too small and pass it on to the next person. From a shop, the only other option, a box of 12 toddlers shirts would be maybe $60. Of course you get pants and undershirts and jackets and whatever. So youre saving several hundred dollars each time.
If it were just a matter of going to some other place or using some other app then ofc I would do that, but fb market is the place parents sell their toddler clothes in my area.
So you insult this dude and tell him “you have other options”, but refuse to elaborate on those other options. Got it.
Get offline and go out. I can’t tell you what your options are in your area. I could give you a whole list of the options in my area, but only you know where everything is in your environment.
There’s salvation army and Savers, and that’s about it. Usually they don’t have great stuff. Unfortunately, Facebook marketplace is where people in this area go to sell shit.
No one asked me for other options… Whatever it is you got, you can keep it. Its clearly making you dumb.
JFC chill out dude
Oh my sweet summer child. One day the light of idealism will fade from your eyes just as it does for everyone who is not 15.
I’m not contributing to pissing away freedoms and privacy, but I’m not going to inconvenience myself on ideological grounds.
Its got nothing to do with some frivolous ideology, and everything to do with not letting someone else manipulate me through convenience. People like you always have excuses, but the reality is that youre just lazy. You want your hand held by some tech daddy, you need your hand held by some tech daddy. Because other wise you might have to think for yourself. And that, well, thats just too much effort. No, better to bend over, spread cheeks, and present your arse to the gods of convenience. Well, that and all your data…
LOL. Settle down mate.
You can call me names if it makes you feel better.
I couldn’t care less if fb knows I’m selling toddler clothes.
I, and everyone else who is not 15, will continue selling my junk on facebook.
Wao, you actually think that’s all they know and therefore that’s the only data they would share and profit from?
OK, then I totally understand why you are so complacent about it. It all makes sense now.
I’m so excited for you to tell me how you think the Web works.
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This isnt about ideology. This is about survival.
Very dramatic.