I don't have an account now and never had an account either.
Their purpose seemed somehow shady from the get-go. All that for free, what's the catch? What do they sell? And later the catch became obvious.
For some people Facebook is certainly useful to keep in touch with folk. But for my part, I am happy I never joined.
A corporation in a position to collect all kinds of information about you, to build graphs of who you know, when you communicate with them within the service, to learn even the people you know but who are not in the service yet appear in your pictures (shadow profiles), and so on... That is too much power for a single entity. Who watches and regulates them? Who looks after how that data is used? Who makes sure they behave? How can you ask them to go away if you don't like them? What if the political situation goes bad as in post-1920s bad and someone repeats the IBM/Hollerith tabulation machine use-case using data from Facebook?
Some might say the tinfoil is strong in this one but come one, after everything with Snowden, after the Cambridge Analytica and everything else, I am happier and happier about my initial decision. The only way to win is to not play the game and all that.
Their purpose seemed somehow shady from the get-go. All that for free, what's the catch? What do they sell? And later the catch became obvious.
For some people Facebook is certainly useful to keep in touch with folk. But for my part, I am happy I never joined.
A corporation in a position to collect all kinds of information about you, to build graphs of who you know, when you communicate with them within the service, to learn even the people you know but who are not in the service yet appear in your pictures (shadow profiles), and so on... That is too much power for a single entity. Who watches and regulates them? Who looks after how that data is used? Who makes sure they behave? How can you ask them to go away if you don't like them? What if the political situation goes bad as in post-1920s bad and someone repeats the IBM/Hollerith tabulation machine use-case using data from Facebook?
Some might say the tinfoil is strong in this one but come one, after everything with Snowden, after the Cambridge Analytica and everything else, I am happier and happier about my initial decision. The only way to win is to not play the game and all that.