After letting Facebook Inc. build a vast profile of me for 9 years, I deleted my facebook account. Privacy is not my only concern, but I personally reacted to how Facebook has affected the way we interact in our real life.
How?
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Downloaded a copy of my data from facebook -> settings This contained all of my messages, photos, videos, and probably a lot more information which I can not consciously recall sharing with Facebook.
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Created a dummy facebook account* and added it to the resourceful groups I might miss out important information from.
*An account without any interaction i.e. No likes, No reactions neither love nor angry, no comments, no photos/videos, no “friends”. A profile to just receive information on email (sent by facebook).
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(Going extreme) Blocked Facebook servers on my computer that my computer can never communicate to domain names linked to Facebook servers. See the list.
Why?
Social concerns
- People started using Facebook as LinkedIn by adding Freinds and it blurred the lines of relationships between two individuals — Article
- Real addiction to unreal things — Video
- Facebook (read Social Media) promotes Ignorance by thoughtless comments, replies and reactions
Privacy concerns
- This will suffice — https://stallman.org/facebook.html