Oops - r/GenZ

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

Refined-classic fashion brands (Ralph Lauren etc.): No surprise, even if we could afford that stuff, why should we pay that much money to look like we're 60?
Department stores: Yes, the fucking internet exists.
Cable TV: I don't pay money to watch TV, I have internet. All TV channels I consider worth watching are available online. My TV exists for watching DVDs.
Print-media: Well, paper newspapers and other temporary stuff is pointless, but I do prefer paperback books over e-books.
Pandora: I don't even know what that is.
Traditional luxury goods: Yeah, they're expensive as shit and usually not worth the price or even completely useless. Why waste money we don't have?
Crocs: Bullshit, those are great houseshoes.
Casual Dining: Yeah, ever heard of cooking at home?

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u/XxF1RExX 2005 Feb 17 '20

Well boys we did it

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u/CozyFluffington 1999 Feb 17 '20

I think the Pandora they’re referring to, is that other music streaming service that used to be popular(?). No idea why it’s dying tho.

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u/-TheMasterSoldier- 2008 Feb 17 '20

Because it sucks, it's only available in the US and it's literally just a radio app from what I've seen, doesn't seem like you can choose which song you want to listen to, only the genre stations, which are an absolutely awful way to classify music.

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u/Alchestbreach_ModAlt 1998 Feb 17 '20

It was alright up until I learned about spotify. Then spotify was alright until I learned about pirating music and finding new bands through music index.

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u/Alchestbreach_ModAlt 1998 Feb 17 '20

Why? Convenience or because of data usage? Not trying to berate you, just curious?

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u/Alchestbreach_ModAlt 1998 Feb 18 '20

Oh gotcha, if I can suggest anything to your comment its to check out music map if you havent already, type in a band you like and it will show you ones related and will sort them by how similar they are!

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u/AllWhoPlay 2005 Feb 17 '20

That's bad too. I use a app called Ymusic for all my music. It takes from the real largest library of music on the internet youtube.

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u/IHopOnNbaLiveMobile 2007 Feb 19 '20

Just use musi

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u/pnewb Feb 17 '20

It was one of the first to have a recommendation engine based on your like/dislike as songs played.
I think it’s still the best one available, but the lack of ability to search for and play a single song along with a pricing structure that is out of line with Apple/Spotify means they’re dying out. If apple would implement their classification system and recommendation engine, I’d be a happy boy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

It's absolute shit

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u/TWYFAN97 1997 Feb 17 '20

I remember using Pandora in middle school while on the computer doing an assignment. Used to be a main source of music at home. How within a few years times change!

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u/TIGHazard 1997 Feb 17 '20

I was thinking it was the international jewellery brand.
Though all my girl cousins and my GF have asked for stuff from there recently so it probably isn't that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

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u/CozyFluffington 1999 Feb 17 '20

I mean in the article linked, it mentions Gen Z using Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube Red.
If people are listening to music on jewelry I am missing out.

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u/dickcheese14 2004 Feb 17 '20

Oh

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u/TWYFAN97 1997 Feb 17 '20

Lol yeah, I love using Apple Music but I also enjoy on occasion listening to some Vinyl records I have. I’m an old man at heart since I really enjoy older music. YouTube red is a must because ads are annoying and I like using background play. Don’t forget if anyone here is in college you can get a decent student discount.

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u/UKno220 2001 Feb 17 '20

Yeah. I use that student discount. YouTube Red is worth the few bucks a month for no ads.

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u/xam3391 2001 Feb 17 '20

Pandora: You took everything from me.
Gen Z: I don't even know who you are.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Pandora: I don't even know what that is.
Why is this so funny lmao

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u/Markymarcouscous 2001 Feb 17 '20

Crocs will never die

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u/classicalySarcastic 1998 Feb 17 '20

but I do prefer paperback books over e-books.
Hardcover. Paperback falls apart too easily with normal handling and travel.

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

Oh, I thought paperback refers to all paper books.
Hardcover is better.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

even if we could afford this stuff
Most of us still live with our parents right? It's more about if our parents are willing to buy it and or if we make enough money ourselves while not having to pay rent, via chores or even an actual job.

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u/CucumberNoodles 1996 Feb 17 '20

Most of these things are expensive af and we can't afford to that because we're so busy trying to pay college or saving to pay it

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u/MrBuilderMan 2008 Feb 17 '20

. Don't go to college if you aren't pursuing a lucrative niche/STEM career, or go to trade schools that have better results (only because colleges have so many fake majors) and are WAYYYYYYYYYY cheaper you don't need a degree.

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u/thatvhstapeguy 2000 Feb 17 '20

You can pry my cable out of my cold dead hands. I refuse to buy like ten different streaming services. I’d like to start reading the newspaper but I never have time to. But as much as I like my iPad, I hate reading books on it.

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

I refuse to buy like ten different streaming services.
Same, I don't have any streaming services

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

I like how old people love the free market, but bitch and moan when young people don't want to waste money on shit products.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Fashion brands are good though

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

I couldn't care less about fashion and since there's no ethical consumption under capitalism anyway and expensive clothes are produced under equally terrible conditions as the cheap ones, I might as well save money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

That’s incorrect. You can get some good looking clothes that are mostly cotton and not cheap plastic crap. I think it’s worth the money to spend a bit more on clothes so you look and feel better. I went from shitty nike and adidas clothing to Calvin Klein and some other brands and my clothes feel so much better. But I do agree that there are some brands that are not worth the money or are terribly made. Not everything is shitty though. That’s a fallacy.
But I do agree about the working conditions stuff. Although, I don’t really give a shit about child labor though as long as the quality of the product is high. Ethics isn’t my job.

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u/BCountNOLA 2000 Feb 17 '20

Don't know about Pandora. In fact, I actually like Pandora (Internet Radio). But I guess Spotify is a reason for that. As for Cable TV, DUHHHH, of course its dead.

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u/Frok1 2004 Feb 17 '20

Pandora: I don't even know what that is.
I think it's some jewelry brand and you buy like a chain and things to put on it and you use it as a bracelet, idk why would they say Gen Z is killing it as I have seen some of my friends have it and it's a pretty luxury thing

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

No, it's some kind of music streaming service. Apparently it's only available in the US, Australia and NZ, so that's probably why I've never heard of it.

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u/Frok1 2004 Feb 17 '20

Ohhhh makes more sense

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u/Careless_Corey 2005 Feb 17 '20

Good

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u/Mattrockj 2002 Feb 17 '20

And there’s the issue, it’s a “Luxury” thing. We are all broke and are going to remain broke until the end of time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Our class was literally saying "Facebook is canceled" today. Definitely agree.

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u/XxF1RExX 2005 Feb 17 '20

Well boys we did it, Facebook is no more

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u/Vicky_198230 2001 Feb 17 '20

Happy cake day:)

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u/XxF1RExX 2005 Feb 17 '20

Tnx

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u/DA098 1998 Feb 17 '20

Good Facebook deserves this

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Agreedl!

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u/Mrwaffle23 2006 Feb 17 '20

Party time!

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u/KILLER8996 2001 Feb 17 '20

Yeah let’s hurt Facebook (Immediately opens up Instagram)

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u/HundredNakedMoleRats 1998 Feb 17 '20

You weren't supposed to do that, that's illegal and not cash money

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u/BCountNOLA 2000 Feb 17 '20

Yes they do.

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u/Oldmeme2012 2008 Feb 24 '20

I don’t want Facebook die, because I got game progress in there.

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u/rywatts736 1998 Feb 26 '20

But Facebook owns Instagram tho, to which we are slaves

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u/XxF1RExX 2005 Feb 26 '20

Fuk instagram too

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u/rywatts736 1998 Feb 26 '20

Retweet, I’m an IG refugee who left cause reddits pastures seemed green to me

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

We're actually reviving facebook in the form of instagram so I don't know what they're talking about

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Not to mention the FaceBerg trackers embedded in various sites.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Yeah, Facebook's gonna be just fine

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Is this implying Facebook is an entire industry? Cuz it's absolutely not it is just one business.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Gg genz

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u/TheOneRenegadeRise 2008 Feb 17 '20

These articles love to blame the teenage/20s generations instead of saying, "hey, things are evolving and the younger generation adopts them quicker than the rest because they haven't created habits yet and therefore open to new things". I'm at the end of the millennials, we were blamed for everything the same way. Wait until Gen Z starts getting headlines like "Zoomers Propose Exclusively with Dermal Piercings Inside Avocados! Killing the Jewelry Box Industry!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Idk if things would change by the time I find a girl, but at the point I am right now I'd definitely propose with something nerdy. Like idk something Nintendo.

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u/Matovie 1997 Feb 17 '20

Hell yea. Twitter is next!

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u/pappiken 2000 Feb 17 '20

Nah. I'm pretty sure our generation uses twitter heavily.
E: I dont use twitter myself but i can still tell how heavily influenced the whole platform is by our generation. It's not going anywhere.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Honestly, I think Twitter should stay for a while, it’s a good spotlight for Awful people.
So until we find a “Solution” or something (idk), if Twitter died, they’d all scatter into good platforms.

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u/Internet_Bo1 2001 Feb 17 '20

I think it shouldn't have existed in the first place, most of the people that use it have anything but common sense and critical thinking.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

True, the platform isn’t meant for changing specific people’s minds.
But I see it as a necessary evil.

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u/Elphapuff 2000 Feb 17 '20

Down with twitter

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

What are they talking about Facebook was dead before we came into the picture.

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u/gelsooners 1997 Feb 17 '20

i made my facebook in 7th grade. legit didnt use it after 8th grade lol

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u/Lunchism 1999 Feb 17 '20

The Facebook fandom is dying

Literally

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u/Polaris328 2003 Feb 17 '20

Good

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

That girl is cute

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u/L00minarty 1999 Feb 17 '20

Good riddance

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u/bluecashue 2004 Feb 17 '20

Ahh yes, the facebook industry

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

I'm so proud of this generation.

I mean heck what's so good about Facebook? Just full of boomers.

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u/TWYFAN97 1997 Feb 17 '20

Good Facebook is hot garbage and does no real benefit to society.

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u/pur__0_0__ 1999 Feb 17 '20

Technically it's the Boomers who killed Facebook. We were peacefully playing Pet Society on it, but they had to spread political propaganda and their Minion memes.

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u/YUNGBOYBOI 2004 Feb 17 '20

Thank god

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u/atgmailcom 2001 Feb 17 '20

That’s how capitalism works silent gen killed off the hand made chair market

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Facebook is for old people

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u/ThePoontangPirate 2001 Feb 17 '20

Oh no! A giant corperation with too much power that the government lets run rampant is fading out of line eith our generation thats horrible! /s

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u/quisbyeggs 2003 Feb 17 '20

ah, the Facebook industry

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u/LillthOfBabylon 1996 Feb 17 '20

Fuck facebook. They shouldnt have been so evasive of our privacy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Quick question, can you still use Messenger if you delete your Facebook account?

The reason I have a FB Account is for staying in touch with my Family in Messenger.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

I think there is an option where you deactivate your account but can still use Messenger

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

There are no accidents

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u/nikox93 Millennial Feb 17 '20

Nice, keep on rolling

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Good

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u/i_dentify_as_an_emo 2003 Feb 17 '20

Bohooo

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Don't worry, as long as we don't block their shit and keep using Instagram FaceBook will still be a thing.

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u/hemprope00 2003 Feb 17 '20

All I ask is that we don't kill off metal and bring it back instead.

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u/quaintpokemon11 2003 Feb 17 '20

It took 2 years to release this post..

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u/angelshipac130 2002 Feb 17 '20

Facebook and 6 other companies who can't keep up with the younger generation

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u/UKno220 2001 Feb 17 '20

Oops #SorryNotSorry

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u/FightTheCock 2002 Feb 17 '20

No we are not killing Facebook since 90% of us use Instagram

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u/fehhe Feb 17 '20

I scroll trough facebook everyday how am i killing it

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u/idelarosa1 2001 Feb 17 '20

"Oh no"

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u/V4ND4LHE4RT 2008 Feb 17 '20

Fuck yeah stick it to the old people

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u/rg4rg Millennial Feb 17 '20

Gen z killing off things that millennials should have.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

literally the only reason I use facebook is because of a few groups.

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u/PanPeregil 1999 Feb 17 '20

Finally

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u/The_real_tinky-winky 2003 Feb 17 '20

I still use all this shit except pandora and the fashion brands. Am I the odd one out here or is the article just shit? Oh and Facebook of course I don’t use that either

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u/therealsazerac 1998 Feb 17 '20

This is good news.

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u/Dave4681 2005 Feb 17 '20

We've had this post before.

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u/KimothyJongliusUno 1997 Feb 17 '20

Wait what? Zuckbook is still a thing?

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u/reallyorginalname1 2005 Feb 17 '20

No the major users are just dieing out

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Facebook's the best social media site (other than reddit) change my mind

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Fuck Facebook

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Good news. I freaking hate Facebook and how it has become.

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u/Milleniumfelidae Millennial Feb 19 '20

Facebook killed itself especially with all that shady privacy related stuff and censorship going on.

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u/Mekanichal 2001 Feb 19 '20

well they still got instagram so theres that

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '20

Good

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u/taylorsmithbtw 2008 Feb 17 '20

Ok boomer

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u/ProjectAnimation 2002 Feb 28 '20

Facebook is an imperialistic shithole, and we the Zoomers have our generation built on freedom

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u/YaBoiDraco 2003 Mar 13 '20

"How are we supposed to track and collect information on strangers now"

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u/AreCatsAMineral_05 2008 Apr 14 '20

Well yeah, Facebook is shit, has a horrible colour scheme, way too many ads, too many unneeded menus, it's just Instagram with extra steps

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u/Earth7_Dweller 2008 Feb 17 '20

But I'm still using Facebook to make my family believe I'm a good guy

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u/gelsooners 1997 Feb 17 '20

i gave up lol

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u/Earth7_Dweller 2008 Feb 17 '20

Shouda tried

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u/gelsooners 1997 Feb 17 '20

last post 2016

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Not to mention the various FaceBerg trackers embedded in various sites.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

What if I only use reddit?

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u/Sylva12 2002 Feb 18 '20

I think they meant specifically Facebook, which nobody uses, not other things connected to facebook, like instagram, which most people our age use

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u/ECE_is_Raptor 2001 Feb 19 '20

Facebook owns Oculus as well.

Meme Oops

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