plant_one wrote:the kicker is... if we all just bail on FB to give them the finger - which sounds like a great idea at first - they actually win...
wait what? thats right... they'd love NOTHIGN more than for all of us freedom loving folks to just leave so they can do whatever the heck they want.
i'm all for getting on other platforms, but to ceede our space on one of the largest platforms on the world isnt helping our cause. only theirs
we need to be able to stay around, fight, and keep our message out there and put up a resistance or it'll just be another #twatter echo chamber.
Well, in a way, you’re right and In another way there’s another perspective to consider. There’s a lot of advertising on Facebook. And some of the advertising is actually some pretty good deals. If the audience dwindles so will sales. If advertisers aren’t making money, they’re not going to buy advertising space on Facebook. Facebook loses money. Stock holders get pissed.
This is also true on Twitter and on Instagram. Currently on Instagram, and to a lesser extent on Twitter, every time I see a advertisement, I post a comment on that advertisers post declaring that “I will not be buying anything on Instagram until Instagram stops censoring its users”. The advertiser sees that. So now its hitting the pocketbooks of the advertisers. And if you hit the pocketbooks of the advertisers then the advertisers will start hitting the pocketbooks of Instagram and the same goes for Twitter and Facebook. So guys, every time you see an advertisement on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook comment that you’re not going to buy from an advertiser on that platform until the owners of that platform stop censoring their users.
This is a form of trickle down boycotting. Or maybe it should be called trickle up boycotting. Anyway it’s something that I started doing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Another thing I do on Instagram is when I see someone advertising some thing that I am pretty sure is from China, I inquire in the comment asking where the product is made or asking “is this product made in China?” If it’s Chinese garbage, it needs to be pointed out. We need to get China out of our economy.