The facebook problem

[GeorgeHayduke]

Anyone else feel dirty for ever having a facebook account? I have one, with a total of 8 friends, but after we learned this week of their data sieve and call-record hoarding, I'm done.

Though I rarely go there, I've devised a scheme to potentially corrupt the data-miners and the prospect of leaving a legacy of what they call a "shadow profile". After I download and then delete any info I want to keep (locally), slowly changing my liked pages, my favorited views; ultimately obfuscating any meaningful or easily packaged target profile I might leave before finally deleting. Maybe a campaign of conspicuous misinformation before changing phone numbers and mobile platforms.

Next: google. This big-brother shit just got real all of a sudden.

Anyone else feel like doing this? Just blatantly feeding them such digital bullshit that you suddenly appear as analog television snow right before the proverbial Ctl+Alt+Del?

[underthematrix]

1. I deleted my FB and just got an email today from FB that it will be deleted in 14 days

However, if I log on before that time, it cancels my request to permanently delete my account and I have to start all over again

[GeorgeHayduke]

2. That's always been the case.

My students would end-up in bookface arguments and impulsively delete themselves in protest knowing that it wasn't actually deleting. They'd cool-down and get the same email.

Facebook knows that, too. That's why they do it.

I just want to troll a big bag of rotting and false info for a while to obfuscate any reliable predictability of my profile. Soon I'll be clicking on every fox news story and dating Ann Coulter and trolling #MAGA on every meme post.

Write an algorithm for THAT.

[SoCalDem]

3. I have no problem with faceook

I NEVER use messenger
I only play the free slots & check out pics from friends
I never "like" stuff
I do not use a cell phone
I have everything disabled, that I could figure out how to disable
I do not have a news feed or any apps..

[duforsure]

4. No more

Facebook to. Waiting for another company to create something better secured, and managed by someone who won't sell out our data , or allow foreign countries like Russia to influence our elections, or laws in this country. Facebook did and didn't care.

[Sedona]

5. This week my father, who passed two years ago, "liked" a photo I posted two months ago.

"shrug"

(yeah I reported it, for all the good that it'll do)

[sarah FAILIN]

6. I'm not deleting mine

It is how the dems in my area organize. With it I can talk to other dems all over my state which is valuable and something I didn't always have. I won't be guilted out of it.

[NightWatcher]

7. I didn't do or say much on it before, now I'll do even less.

I took it off of my phone and pad and will only check it weekly to see if anyone needs anything.

I'm completely avoiding political talk, blocking friends that spew rw talking points. I've unliked every non-actual person and I don't fan anything else. It's strictly for me to see what my peeps are doing.

After the Android revelations I'm glad it's not on my phone anymore.

[hexola]

8. Im in the web biz - I have to...

Clients wan't it...

That said - Im slowly deleting old content.

Unfollowed everyone.

Now I just get posts from various groups Im part of.