@dang Why remove the (2017 Update) from submitted title, yet not add (2015)?
Get your loved ones off Facebook
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Re: Get your loved ones off Facebook
#72For those interested in archiving their FB content, note that FB's download tool supplies only a subset of the content available in the activity log (namely only the content linked to your timeline). I've been working on a sustainable way to export all activity log content and will post updates here: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/reset-your-facebook-account/i...
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#73Golden quote: Don’t confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy. (From I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy? : https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why... )
This. The military has secrets, but should have no privacy. Same with the government. Privacy is the opposite of transparency. We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret, such as Private Keys and passwords. Secrets do not hinder transparency.
So the military uses the bathroom with the door open, but... we don't know what they're doing in there?
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#74Delete timeline for me: - Delete account - 1st week, open facebook tab close facebook tab. - 2nd week, visit facebook once a day by accident don't login - 3rd week, visit facebook once a week, don't login - 4th week, stop visiting altogether It's been about 6 months now without an account and my wife and I are really happy about no longer have it. Try it!
Gosh, that sounds an awfully lot like ending a nasty drug habit:
- Quit smoking.
- 1st week, light up a cigarette in a stressful situation, enjoy it...
- 2nd week, light up a cigarette and immediateley regret it...
- 3rd week, wonder why you still have this package of ciggis at home (and the inner schweinehund responding: they are for emergency situations, EMERGENCY IS NOW!!!)
- 4th week, throw away the "emergency"-package, lighters and ashtrays, just to be sure...
No shit, I never used facebook, but it seems like it has a similiar addiction-potency as nicotine (wich is quite high).
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#75I take a facebook "sabbatical" every couple of years where I delete my account completely and permanently, and then come back with a brand new account a few months later. It irritates my friends but I love it.
Aren't they preserving your deleted data? They could link your new accounts with your old data internally
The easier way is for FB to wait until the GP friends the friends, and with some or many of them having already synced their contacts/address book with FB, tie the GP back to the old ("deleted") identity using the phone number. This is a simplistic explanation, but there are more ways to identify people based on the name and other attributes one's "friends" upload on to FB.
In effect, what the GP does in no way helps provide more privacy from FB for the GP.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. The military has secrets, but should have no privacy. Same with the government. Privacy is the opposite of transparency. We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret, such as Private Keys and passwords. Secrets do not hinder transparency.
So the military uses the bathroom with the door open, but... we don't know what they're doing in there?
Only if you're standing above them and looking down.
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#77Delete timeline for me: - Delete account - 1st week, open facebook tab close facebook tab. - 2nd week, visit facebook once a day by accident don't login - 3rd week, visit facebook once a week, don't login - 4th week, stop visiting altogether It's been about 6 months now without an account and my wife and I are really happy about no longer have it. Try it!
Off since, I don't remember--roughly 2011. 1. Did not delete my account, an attempt to guard against someone impersonating me there. 2. Deleted all content I had stored there. Obviously I don't believe FB actually deleted it, but I figured their soft delete is as good as it will get. 3. Asked all FB friends to kindly ignore my account, not to tag me or post pictures of me, and that if they saw activity from my accoun…
Here's a lil stressful method to wean yourself off Facebook. It's what I did.
Use the settings / notification tab to disable certain notification type. E.g.:
* Some one tagged you
* comments on a discussion you liked, commented...
* who viewed your page
* who shared a link....
Eventually, Facebook ignores some of these settings in a desperate attempt to bring you back.
So create email filters to delete Facebook notifications based on certain keywords.
Also use an extension to block those fun / addicting autoplaying videos.
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#78Golden quote: Don’t confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy. (From I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy? : https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why... )
This. The military has secrets, but should have no privacy. Same with the government. Privacy is the opposite of transparency. We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret, such as Private Keys and passwords. Secrets do not hinder transparency.
"We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret"
I'm not sure that's true. You might think you know what I'm doing in the bathroom. I don't think privacy and secrecy are truly separate things.
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#79Are people really concerned of privacy, or just witch hunt against some companies? Bigger privacy threats I see are always tracking, always listening device we keep in pocket, which sends it all to cloud. Still I see know serious effort to mitigate that, efforts by like of Firefox/Ubuntu are dissed as distractions. Developers on HN regularly proclaim wonders of Chromebook/Google Docs without any corresponding rhetori…
Regarding this question about a "witch hunt". What would a legitimate objection to an institutional practice look like?
Would it not be a witch hunt against Google if people here complained about Google Docs? Would it not be a witch hunt against facebook if people here also complained about Google Docs?
I'm putting "witch hunt" on my list of stop words. I don't see the phrase being used in utterances that move a discussion forwards.
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#80I have a question regarding this: "tracking everything you read on the internet" I recently disabled third party cookies in Chrome and it's had no negative effect. Can someone tell me if this will block the Facebook code that's embedded in nearly every web page from reading my Facebook cookie and identifying me?
I use the Disconnect-plugin[0] for these concerns. It disables loading (and executing) javascript, cookies and graphics from the most notorious tracking sites.
[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect/jeoacaf...