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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 a
by rpgmaker 10y 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 10y agoBut 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 10y agoTrue, 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/