&quot;Everybody else is doing it&quot; isn&#x27;t doing it for me right now.  Facebook has ~1.4 billion monthly active users and, somehow, no real competitors at the moment.<p>Facebook&#x27;s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, has tried in the past to change how society functions by limiting vocabulary[0].<p>Facebook&#x27;s product is their userbase, they make money by monetizing their userbase.<p>Ideally there would be enough competing chat&#x2F;message services that you could always switch when you&#x27;re unhappy.  That&#x27;s not the case here.  Facebook has an enormous amount of power over how the world communicates and I think the intentional and unintentional effects of any bias they introduce should be discussed.<p>[0]-<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ban_Bossy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ban_Bossy</a>