Ask HN: How to accelerate the demise of Facebook?

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I consider Facebook a net negative in terms of societal value and a poor internet citizen. I find it an obnoxious open source participant with its patents + BSD license, and its insistence alongside google to spy on you across the web (don't use the widget but use any of its cdn-hosted code on your site? you're seeling your users too!). It allows and directly profits from free-booting content. It copies any startup that it please. Its incentives to extract the maximum amount of attention from you through any means necessary, starting with inflammatory click-bait, thus increasing the level of misinformation and rage on the internet. It is the embodiment of hubris and is devoid of ethics (it is, after all a for profit corporation). Its private echo chamber is the terminal form of ad-supported content. It (logically) uses the power it wields to further its own goals, which are inimical to users in general and their privacy in particular. It hires the brightest mind to extract ever more attention and information from its unsuspecting users to sell to the highest bidder. In terms of societal ill, I place it up there alongside oil companies and arms manufacturers.

I consider it anathema to the idea an open, well informed and free society.

Logically it too shall fall, like geocities, myspace, orkut, yahoo, ping, google+ etc... before it. But my instinct is less sure and is afraid it is really a unicorn that might really buck the trends of its ilk.

My other fear is that a challenger strong enough to overthrow it would end up being a successor in all but name and likely even more user abusing (machine learning rewrite/generation of news in click-bait format targeted especially for you comes to mind).

My only hope is that, as an ad-supported website, its ROI for advertisers might become less favorable and that enough of them will leave to fatally hemorrhage the company.

Are there any other ways to hasten or increase the likelihood of its demise?

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