App-mediated interactions with people reachable in the real world are of very little use to me.
My first step in exiting from the app-mediated world and returning to the real world is the trashing my Facebook account, which I did on February 16.
This was not directly caused by, but was certainly accelerated by an increasing awareness of the crime promoted and actively participated in by Zuckerberg on his Facebook platform, and by his total lack of a moral compass. His active selection of targets for criminal advertisers is obvious, unless you install an ad-blocker that enables you to pretend that it isn’t happening, although it will still be happening.
Another annoyance is the incessant unlawful publishing on Facebook of images stolen and published without permission from their owners. IP theft appears to have become the norm. Add to that the reality that the platform is flooded with meaningless AI-generated garbage, and the decision to bail out becomes a no-brainer.
Zuckerberg’s sucking up to Mango Mussolini who sits on his throne in the White House is an additional factor, but my move away from social media platforms was coming way before Zuckerberg openly joined the ranks of Trump-sycophantic scum.
And, as long as things like those plantation investment scams on LinkedIn don’t get totally out of hand, I might remain on that single social media platform.
That said, the missionaries for the Church of the Amazing AI on LinkedIn are increasingly annoying. My still being on that platform must be a demonstration of my tolerance for alien belief systems.