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Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 month ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also old people. So many old people sending links to lies and bullshit.

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And now they'll use it as an excuse to require an ID check to access social media

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

They're literally the ones lobbying for IDs on the OS level. https://byteiota.com/metas-2b-lobbying-age-verification-laws-exposed/

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I got my $8 from the FB Privacy Lawsuit yesterday.

Gonna spend it on booze.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

In the days of Friendster and Myspace, I created a page on one of the other sites, whose name I can no longer remember. Then Facebook dominated and I just didn't want to go through the effort again to create a new one.

Then Facebook started getting creepy. I remember for a while it had the social games (I only remember Cow Clicker by Ian Bogost, which was a parody of other social mutual-clicking games.

At other times there were tie-ins to other franchises. Coupons you could only get through your Facebook account. Since I wasn't allowed to see anyone's pages without an account of my own, I was never enticed to track my friends that way.

Eventually, Facebook went more and more full evil, and I just watched from afar.