09-20-2020, 12:03 AM
(09-19-2020, 06:49 PM)Yakinabe Wrote: While current Quest users have till 2023 to switch to Facebook accounts, it appears the newly released Quest-2 headset requires Facebook accounts for all users upon release.
I sincerely hope you will find another platform to support soon. Otherwise you will be missing out on a whole section of the population who avoid Facebook due to various concerns (privacy concerns, spreading and profiting from hate speech and misinformation, etc).
I don't really get all the furore over Facebook and its practices. The data collection and targeted ads is no different from what Amazon and Google do, I even got my Kindle's cheaper from Amazon as they charge less if you allow advert screensavers.
The idea that they spread hate and misinformation seems misguided to me too. I mean first, don't newspapers and magazines spread hate and misinformation? Isn't that the very purpose that many tabloids exist for? It's the same with the charge that they influence elections. What, more than newspapers, television, celebrities and their endorsements? A person's career and place in the social hierarchy influences elections, as does peer groups, a person's religious affiliation or ideological views on things like the environment, animal treatment, immigration etc.
The real argument against Facebook seems to me to be a policing of what adults can be exposed to. The idea goes that people are influenced by conspiracy theories, hate speech etc that they might find on Facebook. So in a way, those objecting to Facebook are trying to police what adults should be allowed to see, on the grounds that they are stupid and easily influenced.
That to me seem to be equally pernicious, the idea that those on the liberal left should decide what is appropriate content for other adults to see...