For many, many years, we have been ambivalent regarding our presence on social media in general, and Facebook and X/Twitter in particular.
Already back in 2010, we wrote a (Dutch) blogpost on whether or not to quit Facebook, and in 2015 we joined a large global initiative asking Mark Zuckerberg to stop his internet.org scheme. Since then, things only got worse.
Although social media are undeniably a very powerful tool in community building, we now feel the abuse of power and the tone of voice on X/Twitter, and the endless list of privacy concerns with Facebook far outweigh any benefits, and...
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