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I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".
I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".
When I deleted FB from my phone, it was a solid statement of "I will not use FB on my phone". I do still use Messenger, because it's primary contact mechanism anymore for so many people, but I don't read the feed on my phone, period.
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Yeah, you have to give it to Mark Z for his prescience on that one.
And a flag to regulators for not blocking or at least more heavily investigating that acquisition
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That's a problem for me, too. I'm in a few bands and otherwise host events, and I'm involved in other performance scenes, so FB events are really important to me. They're the #1 reason I can't give it up completely.
Meetup, Evite, probably many more in this space. All you need to invite someone is an E-mail address.
In practice, it means signing up for another service for most people. Social penetration of Meetup/Evite/etc is far lower than that of Facebook.
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When I deleted FB from my phone, it was a solid statement of "I will not use FB on my phone". I do still use Messenger, because it's primary contact mechanism anymore for so many people, but I don't read the feed on my phone, period.
You're still giving them location data and customer profile information. Probably something like: "white male, from $STATE, income bracket derived from home and work location, and probably flagged as "privacy conscious" because you never use the app. That profile is valuable to at least some advertisers.
I dialed back Facebook because it ate time better spent doing other things, and I like myself better when I'm not yelling at people who are wrong on the Internet so much.
There could be a lot of story lines here. I go for web over apps as much as possible. Less resource hogging. More control over things like notifications. I just don't have a burning need to check my FB notifications. But I'll still check FB a couple times a day. No need for the app, but I haven't deleted my FB account either. I also prefer the stripped down web version which is "free" on mobile connections in places…
It's real.
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You're still giving them location data and customer profile information. Probably something like: "white male, from $STATE, income bracket derived from home and work location, and probably flagged as "privacy conscious" because you never use the app. That profile is valuable to at least some advertisers.
Yes, but my reasons for getting off FB aren't privacy paranoia. I don't particularly care that they're tracking me. I dialed back Facebook because it ate time better spent doing other things, and I like myself better when I'm not yelling at people who are wrong on the Internet so much.
I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".
I can't even delete it from my android phone without rooting it