> It’s been more than a decade since people started trying to get others off Facebook. It clearly hasn’t worked.
That's called "quitting". It hasn't worked yet, and people widely began the quitting years ago, so it's not going to work until they actually work hard with commitment, passion, creativity, confidence. If they don't do that, if they don't believe in it, certainly nobody else will.
And look how you've derailed the actual work. Instead of talking about how to solve the problem, we're talking about whether we should quit like you have - a conversation that accomplishes absolutely nothing for anyone. Who invited you to this meeting?
Fair, I totally get your point and I’m definitely a part of the problem. But I operate in a way that if something doesn’t work for a given period of time (like asking people to quit FB products because X, Y, Z reasons), I move on from that idea. We’re clearly a tiny minority, if you look at their userbase.
Lots of minorities have eventually persuaded majorities to follow them - that's how most of history works. A few people think something up - it's not like 60% of the country have the same novel idea at the same time.
> if something doesn’t work for a given period of time (like asking people to quit FB products because X, Y, Z reasons), I move on from that idea.
Those minorities didn't succeed on their first attempt - possibly that has never happened. You should move on from the idea, and try another idea. Do not abandon the goal; lots of first iterations and second ones and nth ones fail. That's how success works, almost every time. There is no success in anything without all those failures.
The quote displays the victim perspective that is guaranteed to end in failure. The idea didn't fail, you did; you failed to make it work, to find the right idea, the right language, the right whatever. The idea and the outcome isn't the weather, something that happens to you. You are the agent, the mover and shaker, or your will certainly fail.
Yeah, I failed, I moved on and have different goals in my life. That's nature of life. Getting people off social media wasn't important enough to me to pursue it in a longer term. Most people I know who were anti social media are in their 30s now, they share stuff on Instagram, are part of school parental school groups of FB and etc. It's kinda hard without it as well, because if you're not part of those groups you just never hear about half of the group-based events.
Yes, that's why it isn't happening. It's not that it's hopeless; it's that many people quit and, here, even mock responsibility or seriousness.
In a democracy, if you and I don't do it, nobody will. If you are in your 30s, it's on you. There's no cavalry; there's nobody coming to the rescue; it's your country. If you don't fix the problem, you'll have the consequences.
