My sincere condolences. What a surreal set of circumstances to find out about a deceased friend and colleague over social media.

I agree about Facebook. I know it’s bad for me. I know they sell my info. And most of it I offer up freely. The data mining doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the censorship.

With Zuckerberg being in congressional hearings now is the time to onboard people to decentralized platforms like Steemit. I even made a post about this very thing. https://steemit.com/steem/@harleymechanix/now-is-the-time-to-onboard-new-steem-users I have been coercing my immediate family and friends to make the switch but have not divorced myself entirely. In all reality Steemit could be used to data mine. The blockchain is there for all to read. But there are benefits over other social media. No algorithms. No ads. No censorship. I participate in a lot of gun groups on facebag and have been actively pushing Steemit. Hopefully with the advent of communities this will become more attractive to onboard whole groups of people to finance whatever cause they are championing.

Thank you fir sharing your experience. Together we can affect change for the better of all people and being an early adopter furthers that aim.