Or sign up before the switch.

Otherwise, there are plenty of MVNOs that offer great service off of their network. For instance, Ting. https://www.ting.com

Catch-22, they won’t start building these cables and working on support until people start using it.

My most shared video this past year:

Marketing, PR, customer feedback from people who are non-technical (the majority of customers).

Everyone pretty much wants to... but nobody wants to use an open standard, they all want to control the service.

It’s because the basic phone connections between services are still the same old lines.

In audio terms, the lines are a theoretical 64kbps (as opposed to your data service which often hits 10s of mbps).

Notable is the theoretical, your real max on audio is 56kbps (you’ll remember this from modem speeds). From there,…

Significant *extra* work.

Maybe you mean XMPP? (which would support the voice/video and extended features)

Significant extra work required to socialize is being a social outcast.

So many have stopped doing their share of things anywhere but Facebook. So you’re stuck doing both your side of the work *and* theirs to stay in touch.

I’m not saying that they’re not really friends for it either... just that they’ve become so…

In today’s society, I count that as being really lucky and I envy you for that.

Oh the biggest reason isn’t the social media posts... it’s the people who don’t communicate through anything but Facebook Messenger and Facebook Events.

So you never know your friend is having a party... because they only posted it on Facebook...

Depends on the country.

Geez... I envy you so much. I wish even half of the people I cared about were on other networks.

We have a million and one reasons to quit Facebook...

The only reason we can’t is because most of us become social outcasts if we don’t use it... (Trust me, I’d rather just stick to G+ and Diaspora... with a stronger preference toward Diaspora)

It’s the injection into the site, and ad network quality that have the largest impact on security.

Facebook runs a pretty good ship with it’s ads, especially since it runs the ad network itself (from what I’m aware).

* There are no flash ads: This cuts down a ridiculous amount of risk (flash is evil)
* The ads follow a…

Sounds like it’d be a great April Fools... turn Lifehacker into Yahoo Geocities for a day

Hey, it’s good business.

Dead customers don’t buy things, they want you alive... so you can spend more money.