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Ask HN: What drove you away from Facebook?
A lot of articles are getting attention concerning Facebook's limitations and pettiness.
What made you go from loyal advocate to outspoken outcast in the span of a few years?
I am curious to know individual stories, they matter a lot more than technical breakdowns.
- lzw 16y agoWhen they first opened the site to non-college students, it was distinguished from myspace by being private by default as opposed to myspace's public by default. This is why I joined. Since then, they are increasingly making things public by default, and exposing your actions publicly if your friends are not also vigilant about privacy. Further, I saw Mark Zuckerberg speak publicly and he managed to convince me that he was not someone I could consider trustworthy. Add it all up, and the only facebook presence I will have is the minimum required corporate one to integrate facebook features in products.
- rblion 16y agomy experience was almost identically the same. I wonder if we are just a small, passionate minority or if we are among the first of millions to leave in the coming months and years...
- pseudonym 16y agoConsidering the site we're on, I'm betting we're a minority that cares (or pays attention to) privacy measures-- the ones who would call us paranoid are the ones who are getting divorces after putting pictures of their mistresses on Facebook. That said, it'll be interesting to see if more millenials leave Facebook as their parents join.
- pseudonym 16y agoThe continual realization that nothing private stays private. The number of times that Facebook has added privacy settings set at default-allow has made me extremely wary of putting anything on my page that I wouldn't want an employer to see-- and for that, I have LinkedIn. The only thing I still have Facebook for now is for family in other states.