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Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was in this boat too. Gave it some thought and realized that if my "friend" group was so uninterested in including me that none of then could be bothered to shoot me a text, then... they weren't really my friends in the first place.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When your group is several thousand people, that can be tiring, and you may not have their phone numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never been "friends" with thousands of people. If I had 100 people on Facebook, I maybe spent real world time with a dozen and we did have phone numbers so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Okay well, I am and I do. Not trying to speak for anyone else.