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If you really hate a company, you won't delete your account. You'll run spam on that (verified human) account or sell it to some third party who wants an account for spamming.


They make money from your spam too, at least in the short term.


I mean, these companies are themselves providing the tools to mass produce what would be labelled “spam,” the topic of the OP itself.

Deleting your account may not make even a pixel of difference in their KPI graphs, but -in addition to the mental benefits- you get the moral one of not being a participant in this mess…


They only support spam when it aligns with their own incentives. They hate when other people come along and spam the platform for free.




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