<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Parminder,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/face-how-facebook-drove-us-away-dave-pilcher" style="font-family: Verdana;">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/face-how-facebook-drove-us-away-dave-pilcher</a></div><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><br class="">
It is bad, even if here it is monetising social connect between a
business and a 'follower' group that 'it' has created. </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I can understand why they abandoned Facebook. I gave up on Facebook myself a couple of years ago, albeit for different reasons (didn't have the time to deal with their constantly mutating privacy policy and its implications). Can't say I've missed it.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">Smacks of
public street pay-off rackets involving petty businesses that most
police forces in developing countries live off.<br class=""></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Except by definition, police forces have the authority of law behind them: you generally don't have a choice whether you obey the police or not (at least if you want to stay out of jail or worse). </div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you don't like what Facebook does, instead of trying to spin up a global regulatory regime to try to force your will on a private company, why not simply stop using them?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div></div><div>-drc</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>