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 detai

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/