On Monday 26. March 2018 20.16.03 Daniel Pocock wrote:
That is not a good summary of who the plugin is for or how it will help them
Sorry to misrepresent it, but it has previously been framed as "breaking bad habits", which is a little different from helping people comply with organisational policy.
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We also need to go beyond technology: remind people that they don't need any of these things (whether proprietary or free) to live their lives. The human race evolved for millions of years without smartphone apps.
True enough. I don't even have a smartphone. And when I inevitably get one, I imagine that I will only use it beyond traditional phone activities for things like navigation: something which migrated into the phone device profile as such devices became able to successfully integrate such functions.
When I tell people I don't have any social media accounts and I'm happy about it, they feel more enthusiastic too. But if I tell them that I don't have facebook and then they were to see me on Twitter then the message would be undermined.
Here, I agree. Which is why the "delete Facebook" bandwagon employing a hashtag seems arbitrary if not hypocritical. I also wonder why Mozilla were even advertising on Facebook, but that is not relevant to this particular thread of discussion.
Paul