The rise of the unethical decider in our lives

I saw an event on Facebook today. Kissing is cool. I thought, yes. Kissing is cool, I’ll have a look at that event. I may like it. What I saw prompted some thought about the future. Or what I think needs to be. Or both.

The event is to mark the fact that Facebook has apparently deemed same-sex kissing photo’s being posted as offensive and these have been removed. I’m not sure if that’s true. I haven’t done the research fully.
But it did prompt me to think that I do think its time to move away from Facebook. I’ve heard/read similar posts saying so for a while now. And I’ve alway’s weighed up the gains – connection to friends and family that I wouldn’t ordinarily have. Re-finding old friends, keeping up to date with people’s lives. The positive connections.

But I don’t think I can agree ethically much longer with the decision makings driving the platform.
I don’t want to lose what Facebook has given me – the social platform. But I do want it more on my terms.

I want a co-operative Facebook. A fair-trade Facebook. I want one where the people behind it are people I believe in for their politics. With a small P. I don’t just mean that in an abstract way. That I’ll say it and hope that somehow, that will change their decision-making. Why should it? No, I mean it in a different way in a ‘if I say, and I mean it, am I prepared to do something about it?’ way. Do I value what I get out of the interaction enough and devalue what the makers of it bring to do something, somehow about that?

I don’t know. Maybe.