[FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

[Roger Critchlow]

I've lately run into two mentions of "group chat" as the organizing
principle of social media for the day.  You keep different groups for
different purposes, and you don't let social media into the chat.  I think
Friam actually functions as a group chat, aside from google scanning
everything.  But technically it's a Gen-Z thing, so we obviously don't know
what we're doing.

It was a neighbor group chat that busted the Ted Cruz Cancun getaway plan
in February 2021, while Texans froze to death or were bankrupted by spikes
in electric rates.

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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:53 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's an interesting question. Someone posted a poll on a Mastodon server
> recently, something like "What is it you want from all this stuff? (E.g.
> Twitter, Facebook, ...)" The possible answers were things like
> "Friendship", "Connectedness", etc. There was an "Other", which I filled
> in. I wrote something like: "The state of the world. When I was younger, I
> read the newspaper and watched the daily news on one of the big 3 networks.
> Now, it feels like everything's all fractured. TV news is for ancient, out
> of touch people. The newspaper is neither local, nor does it tell
> interesting national or international stories. So, I use these media, like
> 12-20 different outlets just to get some sense of the state of the world."
>
> I wish I had a better answer to "where do you find this stuff". It can be
> exhausting trying to stay informed. Fora like FriAM help a bit.
>
> On 8/13/22 17:57, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> >
> > And where do find this stuff glen >_<
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:
> gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     __
> >
> https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion
> <
> https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion
> >
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