It's time to delete Metabook, Twitter and TikTok (and Reddit). Fuck it, social media is cancer - a thread.

The future is living in an ATT commercial?

That commercial is awful, but I can confirm that Oculus ping pong is a ton of fun. If they had that along with legal weed when I was 18 who knows if I would have ever gotten a job?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59211163

For 10 years, Matthew Hardy harassed people online by creating fake social media accounts to spread lies about them.

His targets had very little in common - they varied in age, had unconnected jobs and were living in different areas when they were targeted.

Hardy not only relentlessly messaged his targets, but would also create fake accounts to pose as them or as their close friends and family to spread lies.

Getting 9 years gives an indication about how bad this all was for those targeted.

Meta, which runs Instagram and WhatsApp, said accounts that “impersonate someone else are against our rules and we remove them when brought to our attention”.

“We understand how distressing this must have been for the victims and are sorry they had to experience it,” the company said.

A spokesman added that the “safety of our community” was important and the company had “provided data” in support of Cheshire Police’s investigation.

That Horizon commercial looks a lot like the introduction to every dystopian futuristic movie ever made.

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What to do with Facebook products?

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Cancelled spotify today fuck rogan.

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Now delete facebook

Did about 10 years ago.

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Seems familiar…

https://www.amazon.com/My-Tiny-Life-Passion-Virtual/dp/0805036261

Being a true account of the infamous Mr. Bungle and of the author’s journey, in consequence thereof, to the heart of a half-real world called LambdaMoo.

From In Cold Blood to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, readers have been gripped by the novelistic rering of eccentric communities torn apart by violent crime.

Julian Dibbell’s reporting of the “Mr. Bungle” rape case first appeared as the cover story in The Village Voice. Since that time it has become a cause célèbre, cited as a landmark case in numerous books and articles and a source of less discussion on the Internet. That’s because the scene of the crime was a “Multi-User Domain,” an electronic “salon” where Internet junkies have created their own interactive fantasy realm. In a “place” where race, ger, and identity are infinitely malleable, the addictive denizens had thought they’d escaped all traditional cultural and moral limits. Yet Mr. Bungle’s primal transgression challenged all their illusions, confronting even this electronic utopia with the same issues of order and social norms that humanity has faced since the Stone Age.

I remember this being a good read.

What was she virtually wearing, that’s what I want to virtually know!

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Are you implying that she may have been virtually asking for it?

All I’m saying is that she was no virtual angel.

Gross minimization of someone’s experience.

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10/status/1489267491255767046?s=21

God damned NPR spreading misinformation no doubt!

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This is probably npr link

This is all to say that Meta, a company with a market value of $900 billion at 3:59 p.m., was suddenly worth about $720 billion just 30 minutes later — reflecting a spectacular 22 percent fall in after-hours trading for one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. [Update: Meta’s stock traded 25 percent lower when stock markets opened on Thursday, bringing its market value around $670 billion.]

this headline

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https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1490164024948006914?s=21

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