Leaving Facebook is something that most of us have considered at some point in the last decade. The social media platform is a useful tool for keeping up with friends and family members as well as planning events and selling an old couch to a stranger, but it’s also a cesspool of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and spam. In fact, one major coffee shop is so fed up with the site that it is apparently thinking about ditching Facebook altogether.
According to BuzzFeed News, Facebook employees who manage the site’s relationship with Starbucks have voiced concerns about the chain removing its page from the social media network. Starbucks has apparently hit a breaking point due to all of the hateful and hurtful messages it receives on virtually every post it makes.
“Starbucks is in the process of evaluating their organic presence on FB, and whether they should continue to have a presence on the platform at all,” a Facebook employee wrote to their colleagues. “Anytime they post (organically) in regards to social issues or their mission & values work (e.g. BLM, LGBTQ, sustainability/climate change, etc.) they are overwhelmed by negative/insensitive, hate speech related comments on their posts.”
Woke and broke.