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They're either going to charge me monthly subscription fees, which would kill the whole business in an instant, or find a way to make a profit off ads.
I then wrote up a post about my motivation for leaving which I shared on my Facebook: https://nilsnh.no/2018/04/04/leaving-facebook/ I figured it would be better to be vocal about leaving instead of just disappearing without a word. I answered questions and helped some friends join me on Signal.
Personally, I'm happy to be investing more of my time in platforms which respect my privacy. And I eagerly encourage people I meet to consider ethically-minded platforms like Signal.
Ultimately, I hope to see real, legal consequences towards corporations that disrespect the privacy of its users. Also, if monopoly laws were revised for the digital age we might see that some large corporations should be broken up in order to cultivate better competition.
I see no reason to delete Whatsapp because of E2E encryption. Maybe things will change.
As for actual account, it's trickier. I have a decent following there, and alternatives don't really exist. Where I live, nobody uses Twitter.
Also, Facebook Messenger is by far the most popular messaging platform: so much so that hardly anyone has even heard of Whatsapp, not to mention Signal or Wire.
Looks like my FB account is here to stay, unless I figure out a way to reach friends (alternative to Messenger) and followers (alternative to Facebook). Sucks.
I actually, in a strange way, don't really care about all this privacy stuff. A for-profit company looking into my personal preferences just to show me better targeted ads, instead of boring, generic ones? What's better than that? They're either going to charge me monthly subscription fees, which would kill the whole business in an instant, or find a way to make a profit off ads.
I don't care much about ethics, Facebook is free to topple governments or play with the very fabric or democracy or whatever — cool stuff to do, I'd join them in a heartbeat. I don't want to be addicted, though.
I’m also resisting signing up to the corporate version despite some pressure from the company I work for.
FYI FB's daily user count has been steady in the US for over 3 years at 181m ish. No decline with controversy.
Based on growth rates over the last three years, as you cite, that means Facebook is missing about 780,000 Americans.
Deleted it years ago, been actively pushing the people I’m close with on to Signal, and setting up new chat groups there. Signal is great, easy, private with no data mining, and we all have messages set to self delete after a week.