You can download your data.. but what use is it to you? They still keep a copy of everything. This is like someone giving you a copy of the surveillance tape that facebook still keeps on you.
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
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Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
#62No surprise. A 250MB app that needs updates every week, can’t show your friends most recent updates on a chronological timeline, doesn’t let you chat with tour friends, analyzes everything within the app including maybe facial emotions, and keeps sending useless notifications to make you open the app; no wonder people are fed up and delete it.
Also eating battery, always wanting to do stuff in the background, showing ads that make it seems like it's listening to your conversations.
Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
SMS will always be more reliable than data service because SMS runs over the GSM signalling side channel.
Which is irrelevant when GSM is going away and additionally Wi-Fi being more and more common.
Sure.
Aaaand last airport I flew through had a wifi signup which required your phone number.
To send you an SMS.
With a code for the wifi.
So uh...
I'll continue to take my SMS notifications (and emails, which also have nice well-known offline sync properties...) over any more modern appy things, please and thank you.
Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Meetup, Evite, probably many more in this space. All you need to invite someone is an E-mail address.
I could use one of those to plan an event, but there's no way that I can force people to use them to invite me to and event they're planning instead of Facebook. If they choose to use Facebook, I'm not getting an invite unless I have a Facebook account.
My solution to that problem is to leave up a vestigial Facebook account that I never use and very obviously communicates that I no longer use the site. It contributes to the impression that Facebook use declining and ensures I won't miss anything.
Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
#65I cannot remove it on my Samsung S9+ phone, just "disable"