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Re: Leave Facebook
#2People want to leave but stay for the network.
How can we leave and take the network with us?'
Edit:
I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of.
Also, organizing and protests...
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#3Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
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#4Now if this were an important Facebook employee writing this, and many Facebook employees were considering getting together to leave and start something better, I would totally love that.
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#5I don't think deleting a Facebook account really matters in this day and age.
The FB Ads SDK has infiltrated every nook and corner of your life. From websites to your phone to TV's to iot. I am scared by the prospects of that level of intrusion than anything else. They don't need your account.
Visiting my account off FB activity was just there tip of the iceberg. They can connect everything about you without your involvement...
A mere FB account doesn't do much. Sure in the short term we can have lengthy blog posts about "deleteFB" and so on but really it's mostly for sentiment not really concrete.
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#6Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Why does leaving one require someone to leave all the others?
Do we not bandage a wound just because there are other wounds?
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#7A baby step you can take if you want to leave Facebook is to disable (I forget if that's the exact term, it might be deactivate) your account. This removes your access to the site, and hides your profile - while leaving the Messenger half of your account untouched: messages, contacts, etc.
I've done it before for mental health reasons, and found it really refreshing.
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#8People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
I say forget "the network". If your so-called friends don't have your email address, they aren't your friends.
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#9People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
Query your friends for alternative contact information (email, phone #, etc.). Select your next platform(s). Leave contact information on FB. In 1-6 months, return to FB and remove your account.
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#10Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Personally, I find social media to be very problematic. I strongly dislike facebook, twitter, etc. for how they are affecting the way so many people think. It's not because of their business models, it's because I think their product is fundamentally bad for people.
That line of reasoning doesn't lead to any opinion of google, apple, amazon (except youtube, which has some of the problems of social media).