Sounds like yet ANOTHER reason I'm glad that I actually went through all the hoops needed to actually delete my Fakebook account... I try to avoid links to FB as much as I can, and have got all my privacy add-ons set to block it if I click on one by accident (they aren't always obvious

WheelyFixed

fhunter wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 9:36 am

Godson wrote: Sun Jan 04, 2026 10:46 pm Hard nope.

Are people actually submitting to this ridiculous threshold for social media access???

That happened gradually

And people already have 'social networks' there and investment. So most did. At least initially.

Yeah that was a rhetorical question. I was “part of the problem” in being one of the people who did the work in the early days both in what has become the default strategies and methodologies that evolved into the drivers of social media, as well as the early days of boundary-setting around privacy and consent that have been flagrantly trampled on and swept to the garbage heap by the tech world. So, I get what’s happening and why…