Should you #DeleteFacebook? More importantly: can you?
#DeleteFacebook is trending right now… on Twitter. And that’s part of the problem, says Abby Ohlheiser. She reports on digital culture for the Washington Post, and says that while we wish we could kick our social network habits, the reality is much more complicated than it seems.
“Facebook didn’t get two billion users by not providing anything of value,” she points out. It might be memories of relatives who have passed away. Or it might be its program in some formerly colonized countries, where Facebook is the internet.
Whatever the case, people don’t tend to switch to a rival network. They tend to just quit. Returning to our lives pre-Facebook is perhaps the most complicated part of all.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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