FACEBOOK: To Use or not to Use?

RISKS of life on FB

FB announces they will do no more fact checking. When have they ever? 

FB censored my book-cover image on the grounds that it violates their community standards. 

 FB closed down my site when a clone was reported, and they left the clone site up. I reverted to my Moore Bowen (pen name) site, and things continue to  get worse.

FB provides no opportunity to influence decisions like those above. I tried to appeal and got another response that the image violates their community standards. I got no response when I tried to appeal their decision to close down my site.

FB has a 10-1 ratio of ads to friends’ posts when I  open the site.

Too many posts from friends don’t appear in opening posts, and many never appear.

FB encourages too much living in a values bubble of like-minded people where I rarely have the opportunity to interact with people I disagree with, with people who make me frustrated, or mad, or fearful, etc. I don’t like interacting with those people, but they keep popping up in my life, and I can’t always avoid them. I need to learn and exercise my abilities to deal with them.

FB encourages addictive and abusive behavior. They spread socially destructive conspiracy theories and lies.

FB is governed by corporate interests whose only motivation is profit, who don’t care about customers’ well-being, who influence and control our lives on the site in multiple ways that influence our decisions. Seeing images in the news of Mark Zuckerberg along with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and other corporate Moguls cozying up to  our 47^th president, I feel socially irresponsible in supporting them with my presence.  

BENEFITS

Staying in touch with beloved far-flung relatives and friends.

Communication with valued friends I have never met in person.

Living in a values bubble of like-minded people, not having to interact much with disagreeable people. Yes, I know this is on my risk list, too, and still it is one of my primary motives for being here. I like the support and comfort of like-minded people. 
   

 CONCLUSIONS

How much do I want  my on-line social life to continue being controlled by FB?  I like to have my cake and eat it too, so I search for a way I can continue without being socially irresponsible. Some options: go on multi-day strikes regularly or irregularly; reduce daily time spent there; protest, resist, strike, or defy FB in any way I can every time I log on.  Or some combination of these