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I'm less interested in Facebook. With this, I'm even less interested as I were. After deleting the account (which was 6 years old), I came back after 6 months

by tdkl 11y ago

I'm less interested in Facebook. With this, I'm even less interested as I were. After deleting the account (which was 6 years old), I came back after 6 months and added a close group of people I actually care about now and in the foreseeable future. I don't like things, don't follow, don't publicly comment on businesses, only use the events and chat. The only app on mobile in use is Messenger with all the data collection turned off, for the site I use a wrapper app. This seemed to me as a reasonable use of FB. All the rest is junk.

rpgmaker 11y ago
I know you see it as a reasonable "middle ground" solution but you have to be aware that you are still telling FB a lot about yourself. The fact that you only added your actual friends the second time may even make it easier for them to extract profit from your account.
- visarga 11y ago
  But if you take your center of activity away from FB and participate in other online communities, then in a way FB has lost, even if you maintain a token presence. You can enjoy different forms of social networking.
- tdkl 11y ago
  True, I'm willing to let them have that data for the services I actually benefit from. But regarding data, those friends have probably uploaded my contact details using the FB app anyway, so the Facebook had a shadow profile about me, nevertheless me being registered there. At least this way I can foresee what gets posted online about me and somehow control it. In an ideal world this wouldn't be happening, but I saw that for the mental health sake, it's better to let loose sometimes and just find some compromises. Oh and on the desktop I only login in incognito mode every couple days, since they use the login cookie to track you online. For Messenger, there's a cool Electron app [1], which brings native notifications. [1] http://messengerfordesktop.com/ http://messengerfordesktop.com/

by tdkl 11y ago

rpgmaker 11y ago

I know you see it as a reasonable "middle ground" solution but you have to be aware that you are still telling FB a lot about yourself. The fact that you only added your actual friends the second time may even make it easier for them to extract profit from your account.

visarga 11y ago
But if you take your center of activity away from FB and participate in other online communities, then in a way FB has lost, even if you maintain a token presence. You can enjoy different forms of social networking.
tdkl 11y ago
True, I'm willing to let them have that data for the services I actually benefit from. But regarding data, those friends have probably uploaded my contact details using the FB app anyway, so the Facebook had a shadow profile about me, nevertheless me being registered there. At least this way I can foresee what gets posted online about me and somehow control it. In an ideal world this wouldn't be happening, but I saw that for the mental health sake, it's better to let loose sometimes and just find some compromises. Oh and on the desktop I only login in incognito mode every couple days, since they use the login cookie to track you online. For Messenger, there's a cool Electron app [1], which brings native notifications. [1] http://messengerfordesktop.com/ http://messengerfordesktop.com/