I find it useful and I don't consider myself an apologist (Reply #64)

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Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:11 PM

Beringia (4,264 posts)

64. I find it useful and I don't consider myself an apologist

A great way to keep in touch with anyone you have ever met at some time, and want to have some connection to and also their posts can be very enriching and encouraging. I have had very close friends that as time goes on, or you move away, the friendship dies. But it still nice to see their thoughts and what is happening in their lives. Even my childhood friends who I parted ways with, I really enjoy seeing their posts.

Zuckerberg enables Facebook, and controls it to some extent, but Facebook isn't a political alliance website. The opposite. You can have FB friends who are totally ignorant of politics or social issues. And then some who teach you something or are more socially conscious than you are.

DU is it's own bubble in many ways, which has its downside.

Zuckerberg will die at some point, and maybe his successor will change things.

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69 replies	Author	Time	Post
Black leader 'stunned' after phone call with Facebook's Zuckerberg: [View all]	turbinetree	Jun 2020	OP
He can't understand the problems of hate speech and misinformation because he profits from it.	Beakybird	Jun 2020	#1
Naw like President Bunkerb*tch he is amoral and greedy.	Thomas Hurt	Jun 2020	#2
IKR, anyone who makes billions and keeps working is a greedy POS?	Brainfodder	Jun 2020	#7
Or, President Fascist has something on him,	wnylib	Jun 2020	#52
Mark and Jared both have that vacant, 'oh if I have to' look.	Captain Zero	Jun 2020	#3
+1	2naSalit	Jun 2020	#6
He's a psychopath imho.	MontanaMama	Jun 2020	#11
this. nt	Baltimike	Jun 2020	#13
Why? . . .	Iliyah	Jun 2020	#4
Maybe if he'd gone to a good school, he could have been educated	gratuitous	Jun 2020	#5
Why would a white boy growing up in	LunaSea	Jun 2020	#8
Lots of them do, if exposed to good literature and compassionate parents	lostnfound	Jun 2020	#60
Yet he's a Jewish boy married to an Asian woman and has biracial children	kimbutgar	Jun 2020	#9
In the end, it would just mean the Zuckerbergs would be placed on the last train car to be gassed.	TheBlackAdder	Jun 2020	#20
Exactly	kimbutgar	Jun 2020	#49
Who gives a shit. Look at what he said about holocaust deniers.	JI7	Jun 2020	#58
He's high-functioning, but he is on the autism scale imho.	DeminPennswoods	Jun 2020	#10
Yes he seems to be	Wellstone ruled	Jun 2020	#24
That is a complete falsehood about autism.	yardwork	Jun 2020	#30
Bingo.	marble falls	Jun 2020	#40
Yup, sociopath.	jaxexpat	Jun 2020	#46
It depends on the person. It's a very broad spectrum. nt	coti	Jun 2020	#51
empathy is partly learned	drmeow	Jun 2020	#62
As someone with ASD, I think Zuckerberg is just a terrible person.	Sophia_Of_PlanetX	Jun 2020	#53
"Making the world a better place."	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2020	#12
That's 'for WHOM'.	louis-t	Jun 2020	#39
The whole world for Whom!	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2020	#41
It's not too surprising.	Buckeye_Democrat	Jun 2020	#14
Anyone who saw the movie about how Zuckerburg got rich with Facebook	RAB910	Jun 2020	#15
and yet the movie was (supposedly) a huge success	stopdiggin	Jun 2020	#29
He was a complete jerk in that movie	RAB910	Jun 2020	#31
And yet, we still have Facebook apologists here on DU. n/t	Coventina	Jun 2020	#16
"Well, now, it's useful for keeping in touch with family."	Buckeye_Democrat	Jun 2020	#27
I think it's laziness. Facebook is "easy".	Coventina	Jun 2020	#35
Zucky is an echo of Trump	kiri	Jun 2020	#57
I find it useful and I don't consider myself an apologist	Beringia	Jun 2020	#64
.	Coventina	Jun 2020	#65
it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding	unblock	Jun 2020	#17
If trump's posts are allowed but not marked as BS, comment and set the record straight.	Hoyt	Jun 2020	#18
That's a good point	PatSeg	Jun 2020	#22
Links may not help.	infullview	Jun 2020	#26
This reminds me of the Bell Hooks evisceration of the faux feminism with Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In"	TheBlackAdder	Jun 2020	#19
Zuckerberg is all about greed. He doesn't give a shit about America, Americans or American democracy	dalton99a	Jun 2020	#21
He can't understand the issues of humans, period	geardaddy	Jun 2020	#23
There must be a way to bypass Fuckfacebook - surely a simple app	BSdetect	Jun 2020	#25
I have never spent one second	Mr.Bill	Jun 2020	#48
either he needs to go from Facebook...	dhill926	Jun 2020	#28
How could anyone think	Chainfire	Jun 2020	#32
BOYCOTT FB now!! Lots of other platforms to keep in touch with F & F	Thekaspervote	Jun 2020	#33
Deleted my account last night.	kinksfan1	Jun 2020	#44
I tried to delete but couldn't find what to click to do it.	Boomerproud	Jun 2020	#66
Thanks, Turbinetree. 'lacks ability to understand' is a damning	Hortensis	Jun 2020	#34
When someone has no conscience, they can do anything	dlk	Jun 2020	#36
Trump doesn't post the same crap on Facebook that he does on Twitter...	kentuck	Jun 2020	#37
He's a sociopath like trump	TeamPooka	Jun 2020	#38
Zuckerburg is a fucking freak.	smirkymonkey	Jun 2020	#42
I think the solution to this is to simply say no and refuse to use Facebook.	totodeinhere	Jun 2020	#43
Fuck Zuckerburg and Facebook	oswaldactedalone	Jun 2020	#45
What's interesting there	angrychair	Jun 2020	#47
There is a segment of white racists	Mr.Bill	Jun 2020	#50
Never heard that before	angrychair	Jun 2020	#55
In the case of Zuckerberg I don't think he cares. Trump has attacked Asians recently with the	JI7	Jun 2020	#69
There is nothing interesting about that. Many Jewish people don't like him either	JI7	Jun 2020	#59
Never said anything about him being Jewish	angrychair	Jun 2020	#61
Zuckerberg is extremely intelligent, more so than I realized, but he some major defects	Snake Plissken	Jun 2020	#54
Leave Facebook.	BadgerMom	Jun 2020	#56
People shouldn't be able to have that much power in our society	Crunchy Frog	Jun 2020	#63
+100000	Celerity	Jun 2020	#68
Kick	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Jun 2020	#67

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