Patagonia is proud to join the Stop Hate for Profit campaign. We will pull all ads on Facebook and Instagram, effective immediately, through at least the end of July, pending meaningful action from the social media giant. Tweet by Patagonia who identifies as @patagonia We’re in business to save our home planet. Ventura, California patagonia.com
When it comes to efforts to avert catastrophic climate change, Facebook is no ally. They are an enemy. Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University as reported on ThinkProgress.
We don’t have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true…I don’t believe that our platform should take that down, because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong. Part of a conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and the Washington Post on why they allowed an altered video of Speaker Pelosi.
I’m ambivalent about Facebook. I love to feel connected to friends who are not in my everyday physical life and I’ve had a couple of friendships that have been greatly deepened over Facebook, but Facebook is a net negative to my wellbeing. A negative that I am drawn to, maybe even addicted to, I want to quickly add. I don’t know if it is a design feature or a design flaw that Facebook promotes fear and loathing, but either way, it does. It shouldn’t and the most unlikely people, the companies that actually spend money on advertising on Facebook, are actually trying to change that.
The first that I saw or heard of it was when Patagonia Tweeted that it was joining The Stop Hate For Profit movement and would not advertise on Facebook or Instagram for the Month of July. On the The Stop Hate website, there are now close to a hundred companies that have joined the boycott, everyone from Verizon to Levi’s to Menlo Jazzercise. I don’t like what has happened to our public discourse and because Facebook is a contributor to that coarseness, it is time I either get on the bandwagon or shut-up. After thinking about it for days, I’m going to get on the bandwagon.
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I am afraid my blog will get lost, and I will lose contact with my Facebook friends but I am more afraid of the direction our country seems to be going and I want to do what little I can to not be a part of that.
Ok. Now I’m scared that I’ll lose you. But I trust in our friendship. I am sort of on Twitter, but not really. I do want to follow your blog and stay in touch by email.
Yeah, I’m afraid I’ll lose you too. Facebook is a strong connection and, it seems to me, that you are one of the few people who use it well. So much on my feed is so toxic. There is so much anti-Trump hate, I wonder what life will be without it. But we still have a trip to West Texas to go on. Maybe tomorrow they will come up with a vaccine or a cure and we will be able to go next Spring but I’m thinking the virus will be around for at least another year and the fall of 2021 will be the best time to go.
I refuse to lose you!!! I consider you one of my very best friends. ♥️♥️♥️
I think you are probably right abt trip timing
Fall if 2021 will work better. Keep writing
I have ever eschewed F-book for both aesthetic and political reasons…if I didn’t already I surely would now. I have no idea how much you rely on it for the blog and “friends” but I surely hope letting Zuckerberg go won’t cause you harm…his whole deal is one of the uglier symptoms of the mess we’re in…
I think that you are the only one who comments on my blog, usually, people comment on Facebook and I will miss that. As I suspect you know, blogging is sort of strange in that it is partially an attempt at conversation but it is also a record of our life and thinking. In these strange times, it is a major connection with a world I no longer see.
I’m using FB less and less these days.
I get your blog via email.
I do agree with Bro’