One Week-ish Later
posted at 6:07 pm
on Apr. 3, 2019
Previous entry:
I’m Quitting Facebook: What, Why, How?
Next entry:
Cancelled
It’s been three days since I quote Facebook, but it feels like a week. Here’s a few things I’ve noticed:
1) I’m blogging more. If nothing else, that feels fantastic.
2) Some apps require you to have a Facebook account to sign up and use them—some dating apps specifically. So, no Facebook account: no dating app account.
3) It was way, way harder to actually hit the delete button than i thought it would be. It was almost akin to bungie jumping. Not that I’ve done that. But it felt like I imagine bungie jumping would feel like. And it is a decade of my efforts, gone from public / semi-private / private display. Hard to walk away from that.
4) If you think quitting Facebook is hard—I mean the process itself, not the overall decision—you should try Instagram. No, seriously, try it. Try right now to figure out how to disable or delete your Instagram account without Googling it or using Instagram’s help documentation. I will give $20 to the first person who can figure it out on their own.
5) Wait, I have to remember birthdays again?
p.s. In the days since I made my decision? Millions of Facebook Records Were Found on Amazon Cloud Servers, WhatsApp founder again tells people to delete Facebook (his ex-employer), Facebook is asking some new users to give them the password to their email account (!),...
...Facebook ads costing £1m that purport to be from various grassroots pro-Brexit movements were discovered to be administered by employees of Sir Lynton Crosby’s lobbying company and a former adviser to Boris Johnson, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development sued Facebook for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act, and Zuckerberg himself was found to have had years of his old posts deleted. So yeah, not sorry I walked away from that hot mess.
