If you are on the internet, you are likely on Facebook. Facebook is a great way to keep up with friends, relatives, and even old classmates. When you log on, you can see what people are up to, see recent pictures, videos, and posts of their thoughts. It’s like a big network blog. A blog is a short term for web log.
This way of posting things about your life is called social media. It’s immensely popular since 2006 (and a bit before) when it went from University students to the masses (the rest of us).
For me, it has been nice to catch up with people and hear about the latest causes. You also get a window into the lives of others. It’s good to know what people are up to. However, for me as a professional, I have thought for months about whether I really want people
With personal pictures of myself and loved ones
Tracking where I am when I log from different IP addresses around the world.
Selling information about you to companies
A huge problem is that if you are not left-wing politically like them, they delete things that say anything they do not agree with Facebook terms of service.
For Facebook, the product is not the advert on the side of the page. The product is you. They are selling your information. In 2012, a friend visited a site and saw an advert for a dating site on the side bar of that site. There was one problem. The beautiful woman in that advert was his wife. He wondered how could a personal picture of his wife be used to promote some other service. Facebook had sold a picture his wife had uploaded to their site.
That’s just it. Privacy is the issue. The founder has proven repeatedly that he will run over anything or anyone who gets in the way of him doing what he wants to do. He continuously changes the terms of service so that his company can capture more about you. Even if you delete your account, there are questions about whether it is really deleted in the back end.
So after many months of thinking, we decided to delete our Facebook account? Why?
Facebook is a time waster for the masses
It’s mostly juvenile
There is no privacy with these people. You are tracked and packaged
The founder and CEO has proven that he will use your information however he would like, and he is not accountable to anyone.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the deletion of the account (and hopefully they will really delete the data). Will it be heavy withdrawals of wanting to login and see what’s up with people, or will it be reapplying that time and actually doing something productive like reading a book or talking with our families?