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Call a good friend for a coffee face to face. I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or
by drukenemo 9y ago
Call a good friend for a coffee face to face.
I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement.
But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like to interact with. But I've added no personal data to this account and only log on to it on a less used web browser and don't use it in my mobile. I also use the following add-ons to prevent any Facebook tracking: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and uMatrix. Probably overkilling it.
- woweeeee 9y agoWhatsApp You know that's still Facebook, rrriiiight?
- iamjaredwalters 9y agoThe data may ultimately belong to Facebook but Whatsapp is not the same as Facebook.
- soziawa 9y agoBut everything is made by Facebook, the only difference is branding. It's like saying that Facebook Messenger only belongs to Facebook but isn't Facebook.
- sp332 9y agoTrue, but it does have end-to-end encryption so their ability to leak or abuse your data is a lot more limited.
- black_puppydog 9y agoI doubt they'd need the word "coffee" to infer what's happening when said message gets sent. Who sends it and to whom would be just enough thank you very much...
- soziawa 9y agoBut they get all your location data. They'll know that you met for coffee.
- sp332 9y agoIs it necessary to give them location data to use the app?
- soziawa 9y agoThey'll know through your IP.
- vorticalbox 9y agothey will know that this IP sent this much data to that IP but not what was inside it. Your ISP knows the same when using a web site via HTTPS. They can see you send a request to the website but not what it contained. You could also use a VPn or TOR if you want to hide your IP.
- soziawa 9y agoAnd they'll know who you contacted and when. That allows for a lot of things to be guessed. Especially with hundreds of thousands of messages per user available to them. Yeah, but my ISP has to follow the local laws and I can easily switch ISPs if I dislike my current one. Try that with Facebook. Yeah, I might use a VPN but I'd also have to force all my contacts to use one as well.
- drukenemo 9y agoAs said by others, there are differences. Also, I set Whatsapp to never receive my location data. But yeah, the networking effect is real. Whatsapp is what everyone uses, so far it seems like a decent compromise based on end-to-end encryption.
- Treegarden 9y agoI have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoEmail, text, phone call, all better messaging services than Facebook.
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- pizza234 9y agoThis has been discussed before; "better" != "only". If the target is to have a contact, an email or a phone number are sufficient. Also, it's fallacious to think that emails/phones are subject to change, while a Facebook account isn't - some people close it. Especially emails nowadays are used for a lot of services, so people stick with them for a long time, more than the past.
- rinze 9y agoAs has been said before: e-mail. I moved to Canada from Spain but go back from time to time, on holidays. Every time I go, I pick up the list of people I want to see and send them an e-mail. Has worked every single time.