Meta's ~~$17 Billion Settlement is a~~ Bad ~~Deal~~ for Teens and All Social Media Users
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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But wait, we can go simpler!
Meta’s ~~$17 Billion Settlement is a~~ Bad ~~Deal~~ for ~~Teens and~~ All ~~Social Media Users~~
But wait, we can go simpler!
Meta’s ~~$17 Billion Settlement is a~~ Bad ~~Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users~~
Just stop using it. Could be simpler
Could be simpler, yep.
If it was that straightforward then reality would be different huh?
I quit social media for the most part a while ago. It was a slow process of being increasingly dissatisfied with my experience. All of this stuff just makes me not want to come back.
Do you consider Lemmy not to be social media? I guess that's the for the most part, rather than time used?
Social media is a horribly unspecific term
I think the thought was anonymity and not posting personal information.
It's kind of like how a forum isn't usually considered social media.
A forum is considered social media.
Yeah I agree.
For me, it's not so much that it's social media but more it doesn't have an agenda. No algorithms pushing certain posts up on my feed.
All I see on Facebook these days is Russian propaganda anyway.
The parallels with the EU's Digital Services Act are just remarkable, both in terms of timing and substance (down to the phrasing). But on the bright side, when Facebook prompted my mom to choose between a subscription, and her being the product, it first-handedly confronted her with the platform's policies. And knowing that she believed a selfie video to be disproportionate, even in context of changing a banking app setting, she will be even more reluctant to submit it to a social media platform; especially since her joy in using the platform has also decreased over time. So perhaps this might be yet another friction point, that could lead users to stop using the platform altogether. But the sad reality is that this won't be restricted to Facebook, but also extend to platforms that are a net-positive to society.