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Delete your facebook account

by artogahr 5y ago

2Gkashmiri 5y ago
bruh.... that does..... not help. don't you know?
- lnxg33k1 5y ago
  I would say not only it doesn't help but is even worse than demanding entities to be regulated by legislators and leaving the platform free for misinformative(?) entities
  - m_eiman 5y ago
    So you're saying we should keep using Facebook (making them money) and we should also do the policing Facebook doesn't want to do - for free?
    - lnxg33k1 5y ago
      I am saying you shouldn't boycott facebook to solve the issue with election mangling and profiling, if you want that you need to ask your representative to regulate that, otherwise while you leave, the people most subject to misinformation are still there to be fooled and the society as a whole wouldn't benefit. But of course if you don't want facebook to make money(1), or it doesn't respect your ethical vision, then you're free to leave, knowing that it doesn't solve the problem (1) the whole web is still full of like buttons, so you're making them money anyway I have this kind of conversation with vegans I know most of the time, they boycott meat industry, without triggering any sort of regulation, to switch to agro products, then when put in front of agricultural companies employing clandestine labour without rights and contracts, they dodge it, as you can't boycott all food and eat rocks, boycotting is useless, regulations are king
      - _jal 5y ago
        > the whole web is still full of like buttons Make these addresses non-routable in whatever way is most ergonomic for you and enjoy a less junky internet. whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route It isn't hard to cut someone out of your life on the internet.
sschueller 5y ago
No, you need to keep it but don't use it. It is the only way to keep control if someone tags you etc without you ending up as a shadow profile which you have zero control over.
- teddyh 5y ago
  If I don’t have a Facebook account, do I need to create one and agree to their ToS?
- tudorizer 5y ago
  It's not my job as a plain person to police their platform. If a shadow profile is created without my knowledge, Facebook should deal with it and be penalised otherwise.
- a_imho 5y ago
  Maybe even post noise.
Tenoke 5y ago
Over this? I personally see exactly 0 right-wing content on Facebook so the amount of it there is among the last reasons that'd make me delete it.
- slitdangsthroat 5y ago
  Well you said you see no conservative content which means you are a cunt that lives a liberal bubble. So you are saying that you are a worse human being than the people you attempted to take a jab at, right cunt?
jensensbutton 5y ago
No I'm good. Actually a pretty nice way to keep up with actual family and friends.
- slitdangsthroat 5y ago
  At the expense of destroying your civilization cunt
corobo 5y ago
I really dislike this sort of protest. You there! Do an action. Throw down some reasons why or.. something.. anything. It happens in all sorts of protests. A slogan is coined and you're either with it or against it. It's.. it's fucking stupid* to be honest. Discussion is always better * I know. This means I've stopped thinking. I can't word it better, limited by mental hardware
- lithos 5y ago
  It’s not like you can log in anyways. At least without accepting multiple updates TOS, updated arbitration clauses, and similar. There’s legal power to be had in having old clauses that were found invalid in other court cases/new laws to prevent corporate over reach.
- slitdangsthroat 5y ago
  Well you are on HN where you have to have downs or be on the spectrum to respond. Dang should be coming in and scrubbing this comment for having too much emotion. That is unless you are rich. Rich people get priority on this message board. I genuinely hope dangs family gets raped
artificialLimbs 5y ago
I've deleted down to that one friend who I can't contact any other way (literally no phone), and my wife. I am much less tempted to scroll (waste time) now that I have 1,386 less friends. You would think the algorithms would maybe try to keep me on the platform at this point but no, I now see almost exclusively ads on the rare occasion I do look through (I still look at the marketplace).
- reaperducer 5y ago
  now that I have 1,386 less friends You never had 1,386 friends. You had 1,386 friends, acquaintances, colleagues, contacts, associates, and people who you know. Facebook has bastardized the word "friend" to make people believe they need to collect other people.
  - artificialLimbs 5y ago
    From Merriam-Webster: 1a : one attached to another by affection or esteem b : acquaintance 2a : one that is not hostile b : one that is of the same nation, party, or group The vast majority were 1a. I rather enjoy considering people who are not actively hostile to be friends. It invites all manner of goodness and interest into my life.

Delete your facebook account

2Gkashmiri 5y ago

bruh.... that does..... not help. don't you know?

lnxg33k1 5y ago
I would say not only it doesn't help but is even worse than demanding entities to be regulated by legislators and leaving the platform free for misinformative(?) entities
- m_eiman 5y ago
  So you're saying we should keep using Facebook (making them money) and we should also do the policing Facebook doesn't want to do - for free?
  - lnxg33k1 5y ago
    I am saying you shouldn't boycott facebook to solve the issue with election mangling and profiling, if you want that you need to ask your representative to regulate that, otherwise while you leave, the people most subject to misinformation are still there to be fooled and the society as a whole wouldn't benefit. But of course if you don't want facebook to make money(1), or it doesn't respect your ethical vision, then you're free to leave, knowing that it doesn't solve the problem (1) the whole web is still full of like buttons, so you're making them money anyway I have this kind of conversation with vegans I know most of the time, they boycott meat industry, without triggering any sort of regulation, to switch to agro products, then when put in front of agricultural companies employing clandestine labour without rights and contracts, they dodge it, as you can't boycott all food and eat rocks, boycotting is useless, regulations are king
    - _jal 5y ago
      > the whole web is still full of like buttons Make these addresses non-routable in whatever way is most ergonomic for you and enjoy a less junky internet. whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route It isn't hard to cut someone out of your life on the internet.

sschueller 5y ago

No, you need to keep it but don't use it. It is the only way to keep control if someone tags you etc without you ending up as a shadow profile which you have zero control over.

teddyh 5y ago
If I don’t have a Facebook account, do I need to create one and agree to their ToS?
tudorizer 5y ago
It's not my job as a plain person to police their platform. If a shadow profile is created without my knowledge, Facebook should deal with it and be penalised otherwise.
a_imho 5y ago
Maybe even post noise.

Tenoke 5y ago

Over this? I personally see exactly 0 right-wing content on Facebook so the amount of it there is among the last reasons that'd make me delete it.

slitdangsthroat 5y ago
Well you said you see no conservative content which means you are a cunt that lives a liberal bubble. So you are saying that you are a worse human being than the people you attempted to take a jab at, right cunt?

jensensbutton 5y ago

No I'm good. Actually a pretty nice way to keep up with actual family and friends.

slitdangsthroat 5y ago
At the expense of destroying your civilization cunt

corobo 5y ago

I really dislike this sort of protest. You there! Do an action. Throw down some reasons why or.. something.. anything. It happens in all sorts of protests. A slogan is coined and you're either with it or against it. It's.. it's fucking stupid* to be honest. Discussion is always better * I know. This means I've stopped thinking. I can't word it better, limited by mental hardware

lithos 5y ago
It’s not like you can log in anyways. At least without accepting multiple updates TOS, updated arbitration clauses, and similar. There’s legal power to be had in having old clauses that were found invalid in other court cases/new laws to prevent corporate over reach.
slitdangsthroat 5y ago
Well you are on HN where you have to have downs or be on the spectrum to respond. Dang should be coming in and scrubbing this comment for having too much emotion. That is unless you are rich. Rich people get priority on this message board. I genuinely hope dangs family gets raped

artificialLimbs 5y ago

I've deleted down to that one friend who I can't contact any other way (literally no phone), and my wife. I am much less tempted to scroll (waste time) now that I have 1,386 less friends. You would think the algorithms would maybe try to keep me on the platform at this point but no, I now see almost exclusively ads on the rare occasion I do look through (I still look at the marketplace).

reaperducer 5y ago
now that I have 1,386 less friends You never had 1,386 friends. You had 1,386 friends, acquaintances, colleagues, contacts, associates, and people who you know. Facebook has bastardized the word "friend" to make people believe they need to collect other people.
- artificialLimbs 5y ago
  From Merriam-Webster: 1a : one attached to another by affection or esteem b : acquaintance 2a : one that is not hostile b : one that is of the same nation, party, or group The vast majority were 1a. I rather enjoy considering people who are not actively hostile to be friends. It invites all manner of goodness and interest into my life.