What Nobody Tells You About Facebook | by Janice Harayda | Lit Life – Medium

What Nobody Tells You About Facebook Why Meta tried to kill a book by a former executive that may persuade you to log off the platform forever Sarah Wynn-Williams and “Careless People” / Macmillan Books For a long time, I’ve been looking for a reason to quit Facebook. I may have found it in a new book that has so many brutal details about the platform that Meta, its parent company, tried to kill it. I joined Facebook nearly 20 years ago for what were then solid reasons. One was that I’m a journalist and thought it might help me find sources on social media. Another was that I wanted to keep in touch with high school and college friends who were using the platform as their main way of staying connected to classmates. Those reasons have become less valid every year as social media have exploded. A potential source can easily find me on newer platforms, like Substack. And a lot of my schoolmates have left Facebook for Instagram or other media. I’ve hung on largely through inertia. But I’m posting less often after reading Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir of her seven years as a global policy executive
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