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Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« on: September 12, 2018, 01:37:51 pm »

Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
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by Futurism Creative September 12, 2018 Future Society
 

Salman and Shaban Habib, the founders of HelloFriend, want you to get off of the internet.

“Harvard published a study recently showing that one of the reasons people are depressed is because of our social media,” says Salman, the younger of the two brothers. “It’s so skewed towards keeping people online. But people are social animals—we need to be meeting people in real life.”

It’s not such an unusual sentiment, especially in a cultural moment when the debate about social media— and its potential ills—has taken on increasing urgency. And who among us doesn’t sometimes find themselves wondering if it’s really healthy to spend so much time looking at other people’s vacation photos on Instagram? But an eagerness to get users to log-off isn’t exactly the type of thing you expect to hear from the founder of a social media startup.

https://futurism.com/hellofriend-new-social-media-platform-facebook-sponsored/
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2018, 01:56:39 pm »
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Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
Credit: Emily Cho
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This topic is out of my wheel house, but anything that would cause Zuckenberg to lose 10's of billions of dollars would make me smile.
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2018, 02:05:15 pm »
I haven't been to Facebook in several months. I stopped about the time they started banning most conservatives. It no longer had any appeal. If I want to go to DailyKos or DU then I would go to the real thing. I have no use for the Facebook imitation of the New York Times.

Don't have a Twitter account. Never had any use for it.

Don't use Google. I'm currently using Bing. Haven't noticed any significant difference.

Still go to YouTube, but mostly for music videos and funny stuff. I don't use YouTube for anything political.

All in all, I am pretty well sanitized from those guys. They don't make a dime from me.
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2018, 03:20:23 pm »
Use MeWe.com if you need a Facebook-type platform.
Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
Use Mailfence, Protonmail, or TutaNota instead of Gmail.
I don't have suggestions for Twitter or Youtube, although Vimeo seems to be cropping up more and more these days.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2018, 05:35:31 pm »
Twitter alternative:  https://counter.social/about
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2018, 11:12:34 pm »
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Sept. 21, 2018

Each day brings new revelations about big-tech and their tyrannical actions and monopolistic practices. It’s time those in the crosshairs of this illegal behavior look for alternatives. At the end of the day, the truth is, you don’t need to send your money, advertising eyeballs, or support to these corrupt, anti-American companies.

Here are some alternatives.

Google Search – Google tracks everything you do. There is no reason to give this power to someone else. Your privacy matters. Delete Chrome and change your browser to Mozilla Firefox. Change the default search engine on your device to Duck Duck Go. They don’t track you. They advertise this as a badge of honor. This is an easy fix you can do in a few minutes.

More... https://tsarizm.com/opinion/2018/09/21/we-dont-need-tyrannical-big-tech-here-are-some-alternatives/
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2018, 08:43:30 am »
Don't change to FireFox, move to Brave, Brandon Eich's browser after Mozilla forced him out for wrongthink.
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2018, 10:10:46 am »
Quote from: Doug Loss on September 22, 2018, 08:43:30 am
Don't change to FireFox, move to Brave, Brandon Eich's browser after Mozilla forced him out for wrongthink.


I have Brave on my smartphone.

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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2018, 10:26:22 am »
I still have a FB account and even check it every now and then.  I do find it depressing and I finally figured out why.  I don't want to know that much about the people I love or like.  Like my nephew.  Great kid, and will be a great adult.  However, I inevitably think less of him when I read his teenaged musings.  Who wouldn't?  I don't want to hear it.  We connect at a certain level, and FB breaches that connection.  I don't want to hear the things he says to girls or his buddies, or the guy who cut him off in traffic.  I like him a lot better when we have boundaries. 
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2018, 11:04:47 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on September 22, 2018, 10:26:22 am
I still have a FB account and even check it every now and then.  I do find it depressing and I finally figured out why.  I don't want to know that much about the people I love or like.  Like my nephew.  Great kid, and will be a great adult.  However, I inevitably think less of him when I read his teenaged musings.  Who wouldn't?  I don't want to hear it.  We connect at a certain level, and FB breaches that connection.  I don't want to hear the things he says to girls or his buddies, or the guy who cut him off in traffic.  I like him a lot better when we have boundaries.

Hopefully he will learn his own boundaries.  Like why not to make public his thoughts about who cut him off in traffic.

I taught my girls, don't post anything in public you don't want to say to your grandma.  Because you are saying it to your grandma.
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2018, 11:17:11 am »
Quote from: thackney on September 22, 2018, 11:04:47 am
Hopefully he will learn his own boundaries.  Like why not to make public his thoughts about who cut him off in traffic.

I taught my girls, don't post anything in public you don't want to say to your grandma.  Because you are saying it to your grandma.

I taught mine that too.  But, the nephew is just one of many. 
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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2018, 01:17:30 pm »
Quote from: endicom on September 22, 2018, 10:10:46 am

I have Brave on my smartphone.

@endicom  Do you like it?
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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2018, 02:11:11 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on September 22, 2018, 01:17:30 pm
@endicom  Do you like it?

Brave has worked fine under Android. It blocks many videos but that can be good. If I want to see a video then I can switch to Chrome rather than unblocking Brave.

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Re: Meet The New Social Media Platform Taking On Facebook
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2018, 02:15:42 pm »
Quote from: endicom on September 22, 2018, 02:11:11 pm
Brave has worked fine under Android. It blocks many videos but that can be good. If I want to see a video then I can switch to Chrome rather than unblocking Brave.

Cool beans.  I D/L'ed it, and it seems pretty peppy compared to Chrome.  Last I tried Firefox on the Droid it was worthless.  Bloated.
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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2018, 03:16:30 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on September 22, 2018, 02:15:42 pm
Cool beans.  I D/L'ed it, and it seems pretty peppy compared to Chrome.  Last I tried Firefox on the Droid it was worthless.  Bloated.

I use Palemoon on the android.  I've used it for several years.  Works just fine.
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