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As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on
by graue 14y ago
As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on the service just for findability, but even that small step would have been enough for facebook to hijack my contact info in a friend's phone. There really is no way to have a facebook account at all, no matter how infrequently you use it, without getting screwed over.
- grourk 14y agoHow do you know when someone has deleted their Facebook account? They'll tell you.
- untog 14y agoToo true. It's getting tiring reading the comments of posts like this because I know it's going to be filled with people boasting about how they've already deleted their accounts/just did it. The HN crowd is a tiny, tiny minority in the pool of Facebook users, our actions are hardly representative of sea change.
- emilis_info 14y agoOr blog about it, or write an email. Because people want to keep in touch with their friends, "friends", followers, etc.. They need to notify them that they are using some other way to communicate.