They are not necessarily aware of the negative effects of social media
I have a lot of friends who firmly refuse to even try to use an alternative to a Facebook service despite being shown the evidences of how evil of a company Facebook is. I am regularly being called a paranoid or even a conspiracy theorist because I don’t want people to write me on WhatsApp if they have a Signal/Telegram account, and I didn’t want people to tag me on Instagram when I had an account. No matter how many “”“mistakes”“” a company does or how immoral and harmful its practices are, these people will simply shrug at data collection and happily continue to use the service if that means not having to abandon “what everyone is using”. This is beyond frustrating
There’s also the factor that lots of small businesses (single person or family business) use it as a website and to advertise themselves without needing to be or hire a technical person, and to build a following easily. Same for artist trying to promote themselves.
I have a lot of friends who firmly refuse to even try to use an alternative to a Facebook service despite being shown the evidences of how evil of a company Facebook is. I am regularly being called a paranoid or even a conspiracy theorist because I don’t want people to write me on WhatsApp if they have a Signal/Telegram account, and I didn’t want people to tag me on Instagram when I had an account. No matter how many “”“mistakes”“” a company does or how immoral and harmful its practices are, these people will simply shrug at data collection and happily continue to use the service if that means not having to abandon “what everyone is using”. This is beyond frustrating
When Facebook’s failings lead to their information being compromised and more severe consequences, their minds may change.
There’s also the factor that lots of small businesses (single person or family business) use it as a website and to advertise themselves without needing to be or hire a technical person, and to build a following easily. Same for artist trying to promote themselves.