holy shit dude

yea, water is required to live, facebook is required to get degree times easier in my example, those aren't mutually excluisive

what do you want to argue here about, except just arguing for the sake of arguing?

I don't like fb, I don't use it when I don't have to and after graduation I'm probably not going to use it more often than once a X months,

but I had to have & sometimes use it unless I wanted to make my life harder - I don't like it, but that's the reality.

>should use at least another channel

how are you going to convince $whole_group_of_students_of_given_year to move communication off the facebook?

By not participating, loudly. Easy as that

By taking part you just make this more normal/ok than it really is

How do you participate in a boycott loudly when you can't announce your lack of presence?

That's like protesting a party by leaving the room.

one person that has the ethic compass to let you know when things are happening + someone who shows and loudly complains is enough to enact change. i swear that people nowadays would sell their soul to the devil just to not go though minor inconveniences.

You cant? Facebook is the only way of communication?

Partially! People of that age group don't trade phone numbers anymore. Nor are email threads a thing. The only thing unseating FB right now is Discord.

Great. When I was in high school, Facebook was used for organizing all the student activities. I didn't have Facebook and of course people said they'd let me know through other means. Spoiler alert: they almost never did.

So the alternative was to either bite the bullet and create a Facebook account or be left out of a ton of activities. And no, making them go somewhere else wasn't an option. I didn't have any leverage in that negotiation.

I can appreciate that by giving in I am at worst part of the problem and maybe today I'd do it differently, but I really didn't fancy crippling my social life and I wouldn't blame anyone for making that choice.

Maybe that would work now (while nowadays some people look confussed at me that I don't have an instagram account) but at least ten years ago that brought a reaction like "weirdo" and people continued to use their group. In some cases you have a friend who relates messages to you.

In these days, where in presence school in many places doesn't happen students know each other only virtually, if you don't hang out where the crowd is, there is no chance of getting information.

If some group of friends shuns you because they insist on you using Facebook, then I have bad news for you: they might not be such good friends as you think.

I’ve been off FB for close to 10 years now and I can say with confidence that it has not had any measurable detrimental effect on my social life. My friends know I’m not there and know how to contact me, and they do. An event that is exclusively organized on FB is not an event I want to participate in, so I don’t. Dumping FB probably improved my social life and mental health since I’m not wasting so much life “scrolling the feed” anymore.

As do, I but in some situations it's hard to avoid. But good it works for you.

and if nobody moves then?

then I'm at the disadvantage, sad but that's the reality.