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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 cinquemb »

textmode wrote: post #60
cinquemb wrote: post #50

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Gil Scott-Heron had a great many songs and poems where I sometimes think what modern analogues would take the form of, esp when it comes to people's behaviors with internet connected applications, though reading through them today still gets the message home.

Not only do I agree with you here, but I agree with you strongly on this as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686723 This is why I prefer clients and browsers small enough that I can edit and recompile quickly even on a computer with low resources.

If only we lived in a world where this were more common than the present one, where many have the expectation that someone else to wipe our assess for us when it comes to things like this…

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

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Post by mr_spothawk »

thunfischbrot wrote: post #12
mr_spothawk wrote: post #6

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I kept my facebook, but deleted my social graph.

What does that mean? Honestly curious, does it mean unfriending everyone?

yeah, deleted all my friends but kept the account. left a public message for folks who discover me.

also... not satire. though, that feedback is appreciated.

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

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Post by textmode »

Terretta wrote: post #49
textmode wrote: post #48

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"I was hoping that this article would talk about how they did the survey through Facebook :)" There is one type of "revolution" that arguably cannot be started on Facebook. The revolution to reclaim privacy from Facebook, to free ourselves from Facebook surveillance. Whenever this "conflict of interest" comes up, there is an unforgettable 1970 song I recall hearing as a youth. Hint 1: It was written before "rap" exis…

Paul Simon’s “50 ways to leave your lover”. ;-)

Not 1970.

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

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dhimes wrote: post #51
textmode wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I was hoping that this article would talk about how they did the survey through Facebook :)" There is one type of "revolution" that arguably cannot be started on Facebook. The revolution to reclaim privacy from Facebook, to free ourselves from Facebook surveillance. Whenever this "conflict of interest" comes up, there is an unforgettable 1970 song I recall hearing as a youth. Hint 1: It was written before "rap" exis…

Dylan: "One More Cup of Coffee"

Not 1970.

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

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Post by MarkMc »

9% seems rather high to me. No mention of how the survey was conducted. Was it a telephone survey? How were the respondents chosen?

It will be interesting to compare this 9% figure with the change in users that Facebook reports at their next earnings release.

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

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Post by MR4D »

I posted this article [1] Earlier today, but am linking here because I thought it showed how futile deleting an account actually is.

In short, your data doesn’t hardly matter. Facebook is capable of generating tons of meta-data that you have no control over.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16845031

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