Delete your Facebook account

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[Glenn]

Just downloaded my wife's FB data and you'll be surprised how much that take from your smartphone and ho they share it with. i suggest you do the same and decide if you want to continue to use it on your phone.
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[gt1953]

By Golly I am glad I have never ever FACEBOOKed.

One must be careful when they Insta book chat google tweet face snap gram!!
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[79SuperVert]

[KTPhil]

I have a facebook account, but just so I can log in to see what photos a few family members post; those three are my only "friends" on facebook.

I always maintained the highest security settings (which they change without notice until after the change is made, thus opening your info to the search bots and those they sell to, undermining your stated intent to stay private! And at one point, you had to change settings buried several layers deep in four different menus, but I did all that.)

I post nothing, I invite no one. I accept no invitations. No photos. No contact info. No nothing, other than receiving one invite and three messages in the last 8 years.

Yet there are nearly 200 advertisers that facebook has sent my info to.
They have been tracking me based on the IP addresses I post from.
Dozens of cookies have been set.
Eight applications have been installed.

All without my consent.

The news states they track your cell phone calls, but no calls were in the disclosure report. Hmmm...

[Glenn]

[iowegian]

[Zeen]

It's our own fault. We decided the Internet should be free, but there is no free lunch. The rule is, if you aren't paying for a product, that means you are the product. It's not really new, we got free TV by looking at ads and buying crap we didn't know we needed. It's just gotten scary sophisticated and branched into areas way beyond deodorant and ShamWow.
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[Letterman7]

I just did the FB data dump just to see what was in it. And found nothing out of the ordinary that any web search wouldn't have uncovered. My security settings are set to nearly the highest level on both my mobile and computer, and I check at least twice a month on all the settings and delete anything that happens to show up that I don't agree with.

[Glenn]

Facebook is nothing compared to Google. if you have an Android smartphone, it tracks EVERYTHING you do, search and go.

https://myaccount.google.com/
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[awreed]

Ugh. This is a real downer. It's probably too late for me. I'm in too deep at this point. 'They' probably even know my favorite nose-picking finger.

[Splitdog]

[nsracing]

They ARE all tied together. Once we went all internet access - big brother got you! That is what Snowden was trying to warn us public.

The only things non-searchable now are firearms serial numbers -which are kept in Kansas. They are NOt allowed any computers there. All the info on any of these remorseless pieces of metals are all on microfiche films.

I am sure big brother would love the get hold of them but to date it is against federal law to have access to any of them without federal search warrants.

Should be a wake up call to everyone how much of our rights are being taken away and sold to us as charity.

[Meyer]

I use Facebook heavily for networking and promotion. If it wasn't "free", I probably wouldn't have much of a target audience. So while there are some reasonable points being made here, I'm having difficulty imagining a workable alternative.

So I guess in the end (to paraphrase Tom Lehrer), Facebook is much like a sewer in that what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. I'm fully aware that much of what I do on a computer or a phone is being tracked one way or another and that this information could be potentially used against me one way or another. I suppose that if I do choose to engage in some sort of civil disobedience in the future, I'd better be fully committed.

The chances of something like that actually happening are rather slim, so I guess the powers that be are welcome to know what kind of deodorant I use. It's a fair bargain for the time being.

[awreed]

[79SuperVert]

I've grown steadily more disenchanted with the train wreck that is FB, and I'm considering how to make an orderly exit from it.

I would make sure I have contact information for the few people that I want to stay in touch with, and use email or snail mail in the future. I wouldn't have to worry about my photos, because they are all on DVD or printed. I don't use my FB login for any other apps like Ebay or the New York Times, so hopefully there wouldn't be any repercussions there. But since FB owns Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, if I wanted to use those I'd have to set up new accounts.

The one real problem is that my VW club has taken to posting all activity on FB instead of our own website, which has gone pretty much dormant. So I would miss out on any photos of club activities posted on FB, which often don't make it into TheSamba.

I'd start by deleting my photos and my posts, and then my profile (although I know they will never be truly deleted). Then finally I would close my account.

How does that sound? Has anyone else "cut the cord"? How did it go?
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[Glenn]

Create a generic, no name account. Join your group. Delete your personal account. Never post anything personal or identifying on the generic account.
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