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1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

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Re: 1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

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Post by return1 »

everdev wrote: post #8

I did this years ago to claims even here on HN that people think when you say "I deleted FB" or "I haven't used FB in years" are bragging. I think it's important to spread the message that life goes on outside of FB. If you delete, you'll be in good company. In a less extreme version, try not using it for 10 days and notice how you feel. There will be withdrawal, but if you can't pause a behavior for 10 days, you're…

> that life goes on outside of FB. If you delete, you'll be in good company.

That's interesting. I think a lot of people would say they are in worse company. And that it takes a lot of effort to find that good company offline.

Re: 1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

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Post by KasianFranks »

You can't delete 'Search', a lesson for 'Social' and why it will always lose to Search. Just ask AOL, Geocities, friendster and MySpace. Doing something that's easy to duplicate makes it easy to exploit and rarely pays off in the long term.

Re: 1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

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Post by tedunangst »

bertil wrote: post #27
cfadvan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good friend of mine, his wife, his parents and their extended family all decided to (and did) delete their Facebook as a result of this furor. I deleted mine after a few months of first making it, and I’d say all told I know more than a dozen other people who either never had them, or deleted them. They’re not using Messenger or WhatsApp. Some use email chains, others are using Signal, and only two reverted to Face…

What worries me is that email chains (and WhatsApp in many cases) are significantly worst at keeping disinformation at bay: - Hardly anyone writes back the recipients, often copied in the different layers of the email, so disinformation spreads without being corrected; but - Spammers gladly collect the emails through those anyway.

Maybe after the next election we can have content regulations for gmail too.

Re: 1 in 10 Americans in survey say they deleted their Facebook account over privacy

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djsumdog wrote: post #28
prepend wrote: post #3

In a survey of people I know, 0 out of infinity kept their Facebook accounts deleted. But lots of people told me they did. Probably 30% of people I know. Some actually deleted. Some said they did and didn’t (really weird since you can see their account). Some thought they did, but screwed it up. Some said they did but switched to Messenger, or WhatsApp or some other part of Facebook. Over the past 5 years, not a sing…

Ironically, being able to keep track of who deletes their accounts disappeared when they closed that hole in their API that was used to extract friends lists (it broke this app I wrote years ago): https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-chan... Because I've lived in so many places and different countries, there are a lot of people who I can only communicate with over Messenger. I usually use the purpl…

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