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What are the consequences, though? Yes, they have a lot of data about me. What can they do with it that damages me? And even if we can imagine something that

What are the consequences, though? Yes, they have a lot of data about me. What can they do with it that damages me? And even if we can imagine something that benefits them at my expense, every news outlet DREAMS of publishing a "Facebook ruins user's life with privacy invasion" story. Doesn't take many of those for wholesale evacuation of Facebook, does it?

brymaster 13y ago
> What can they do with it that damages me? You can take your pick here and see what's most important to you: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com/ http://pleasedeletefacebook.com/ The consequences range from enabling the surveillance state, data theft, NSA slurping, job loss, employer intrusion, bullying, lowering of credit scores, depression, stalking, jail. These are some interesting ones to name a few: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129617/teen-jailed-for-facebook-comment-reportedly-beat-up-behind-bars http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129... http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-credit-score/ http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-c... http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/finding_sociopa.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/finding_sociop... http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scan... > Doesn't take many of those for wholesale evacuation of Facebook, does it? Sadly, I wouldn't bet on it.