Take away:
Correct, but needs clarification:
Depression referring to the whole economy as the bubble burst.
Acceptance is when the government accepts to bail them out because they’re too big and the gov is too dependent on them to let them die.
That’s the new version of “it works on my computer” as an answer to people reporting bugs.
If you are selling second hand, use a different platform. No one is making you use marketplace.
You just lost access to 90–95% of buyers/sellers. How is it going?
There are online portals, calendars, and even emails that notify parents of students and events.
Great! All I need to do now is to convince the school to use them because beat me: I’m not in charge of their communication systems…
You can call you friends and find out how they are doing. You can also email to keep in touch
You must have misread. I do exactly that.
Stop posting everything about yourself and the internet and you should be telling your friends the same.
You must have misread: at no point did I write that I was posting anything. But I certainly don’t dictate my friends what they should and shouldn’t do.
You are just making excuses as to why you need it in your life and I have never had to use it for anything since its inception.
“It works on my computer.”
I see a lot of people saying “just don’t use it”. If it was that easy…
In some places, FB has took the lion share of the 2nd hand online selling. Historical platforms are in agony and your chance of finding a buyer/seller dramatically reduce if you avoid FB maretplace.
In some places, FB is so common that schools, activities etc. are organized on FB. You don’t have an account, no worry: you’ll be the lone idiot to drop your kid at school the day it’s closed because of a snow storm.
In some places, FB is the personal life blogging platform. So if you want to know about old friends you’ve left behind as you were relocating to different countries, you’re going to miss on some quite important events (death in the family, etc.) as that’s where they let people know.
In some places, if you want to build a network, that’s where “everyone” is. You like trekking and want to find a group for that? They’re all on FB. You want to play board games? Groups are all on FB.
The list goes on and on.
I believe Windows 11 and “AI everywhere” are quickly changing that. Gamers started migrating, but I believe the stats showing a growing usage of Linux on desktop as well as resistance to the Win11 migration go beyond the gamers.
But I admit: a survey right now may not yet show it. It’s probably trending up slowly.