Re: <nettime> Please support the first global facebook user strike

[Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net>]

Well, I quit Facebook on Quit Facebook Day back in May 2010 already, and
such activism today seems like going on a diet without much changing
your eating behaviour in the long run.

https://schneeschmelze.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/facebook-is-a-closed-shop-xvi-schlus/

I don't have any more social media handles ever since, and, by the way,
my friends have neither. Most of those still active on Facebook etc. do
it as a business only. However, I'm not into such businesses.

Amongst others, I teach cyberpolitics in adult education, and I find
that most of those who attend my classes never joined a social network
in the first place. They are rather critical of such platforms and want
to find out more about how they work, what is their impact on society,
and what they are doing with people's data. So, e.g., we talk about how
to use Tor and how to minimise the amount of data that is collected
about you and other people. I think that education matters when you
counter the monetisation of personal data.

Best,
Jürgen.

Am 05.05.18 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Anni Roolf:
> Thank you for the pros and cons. Did you guys also read the medium
> article? bit.ly/facebreak2018 <http://bit.ly/facebreak2018>
> 
> In my experience it’s hard to consider such a campaign in advance. To
> join it can only be a piece of the puzzle, is an experimentation process
> and will always have unintended — positive and negative — results. If
> one is still (!) part of fb and can agree with the message of the
> strike, why not try it (in the sense of experimentation)? A big
> mainstream of people is still there, try to forget the mistrust against
> the platform in daily business, also because a lot of them are already
> professionally dependent from fb (e.g. for Marketing and Event
> Promotion). Concerning this target groups it would be already a big
> success to shake the system for some days and to let grow the doubt, if
> fb is really the big mainstream platform of the future.
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