Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.
Don’t take this wrong, but I am going to pick on this statement in particular. This is mainly the reason that we are all in the position we are in right now. No one can be the least bit inconvenienced and are allowing third party companies to just rape our privacy and then turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. I mean hey, I have a handful of people I know too, and I just use the phone to connect with them. If you have facebook loaded on your phone right now you are giving them all the data they can scape about you just to keep in touch with a handful of people. I am willing to bet the app is running right now collecting data on where you are at this exact moment, how long you have been there, if any data they have access to has changed like contact info for anyone in your contact list and not just your handful of people, calls you make or receive, etc. I could go on and on down to the level of how long your screen stays unlocked. Everyone I speak with about social media has an excuse of why they continue on with total disregard for their own, and other’s privacy. Yes, people I know that are using facebook exposes me to their system by proxy. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake people up out of this, but it sure looks gloomy and as long as people are making statements like this, and not actually taking action nothing will change. Again, sorry to pick on you in particular, but damnit, it’s not that hard to keep in touch with people and not supply some company with a treasure trove of YOUR data.
If you insist that I breathe burning tire smoke to hang out with you, then you’ll stop insisting that so we can hang out somewhere else, or you can hang out without me.
I did.
I’m on Mastodon and Bluesky. My family is the only reason I’m still on Facebook.
Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.
Don’t take this wrong, but I am going to pick on this statement in particular. This is mainly the reason that we are all in the position we are in right now. No one can be the least bit inconvenienced and are allowing third party companies to just rape our privacy and then turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. I mean hey, I have a handful of people I know too, and I just use the phone to connect with them. If you have facebook loaded on your phone right now you are giving them all the data they can scape about you just to keep in touch with a handful of people. I am willing to bet the app is running right now collecting data on where you are at this exact moment, how long you have been there, if any data they have access to has changed like contact info for anyone in your contact list and not just your handful of people, calls you make or receive, etc. I could go on and on down to the level of how long your screen stays unlocked. Everyone I speak with about social media has an excuse of why they continue on with total disregard for their own, and other’s privacy. Yes, people I know that are using facebook exposes me to their system by proxy. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake people up out of this, but it sure looks gloomy and as long as people are making statements like this, and not actually taking action nothing will change. Again, sorry to pick on you in particular, but damnit, it’s not that hard to keep in touch with people and not supply some company with a treasure trove of YOUR data.
Tell them they can find you someplace else.
If you insist that I breathe burning tire smoke to hang out with you, then you’ll stop insisting that so we can hang out somewhere else, or you can hang out without me.