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Good article...
read more at https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/russia-facebook-naacp-boycott/
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)By logging out. FB is UnAmerican. Advertise somewhere else, write down phone numbers and email, stop being lazy, and call your friends and family. FB sold us out.
kimbutgar
(21,130 posts)Recently I got a Facebook request from a friend of my late fathers who is like 96 years old and African American. I have been on Facebook with him in the past. But I quit facebooking in April of this year. So I know someone is using his account to troll me.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Irishxs
(622 posts)Im not African American but I am boycotting Facebook, mostly because of Zuckerberg. Hes a little brat and cant control what he built.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)does part of its communicating (and communing) on FB -- though I want to interact with these people, for the life of me I can't bring myself to join. Any suggestions as to how to be on but be super private?
Merlot
(9,696 posts)A couple groups on meetup moved to FB (it's free and MU charges) so I get that. One group started an email of monthly events. The other one I hear about word of mouth...or text.
Sucks, but still not worth signing up to FB.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)There was a thread here (sorry no link) about how FB gave all kinds of tech companies access to users private information.
So, short answer, no, there's no way to be on FB and private.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)deserve to live under and overpass.
...and there is no metaphor here. They deserve to live destitute under an overpass.
pecosbob
(7,536 posts)living destitute under an overpass.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)dalton99a
(81,450 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,321 posts)I've been boycotting facebook since its inception. Its business model is selling you (your data) to others.
The EU has a law that establishes that you own your data. We need one, too. As it is right now, data belongs to whoever gets it. You don't own data about you that a corporation takes. Does that make sense?