30% of Tech Workers Deleting Facebook

I joined just as it was getting good.
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If you've ever been a member of Facebook and are just now thinking of deleting your account (which is never truly deleted), it's like closing the barn doors after the horses have already left.

I joined in 2004, used it a few months, then deleted it because I didn't see the point. Back then Facebook was only for people with .edu email addresses so it wasn't so overrun with people, but it was still pretty pointless unless you were a raging narcissist fishing for compliments or sympathy.

Yep, that was the tipoff. LOL!!!

I deleted it before it was popular, been off for over a year now.

He's one ugly dude and looks/sounds like an idiot. Does not look intelligent AT ALL. He's that creepy red head kid we all had in our elementary class. Remember that creep? Not the cute red head curly hair funny kid, but the creep one. Sometimes you got the good one and sometimes you got the creep, but there was always at least one red head kid.

Need a conservative sm site

I never started a Facebook account.

Some of us saw through the BS and never created an FB profile to begin with.

Social media has always seemed to be about stalking, and FB has proven that postulate correct once again.

Well, he at least didn't say, we came, we saw, you died, then started cackling.

He merely supports the type of people who do.




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I thought his gig was up when he was pictured with tape over the camera of his monitor


but ...no

Users are commodity, not customers.

^^^This

Anything that a public figure says publicly one should consider the exact opposite true.

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Once you have signed up to any social networking platform, there is no "deleting" it, that is a facade. All your information is stored, it's permanent, and they still track you. You can only avoid it by not ever signing up in the first place. if you already did, just erase most of the page for public consumption. I use it as a sort of blog knowing they are saving the information and tracking it. I get a real kick out of seeing pop ups on FB in accordance with what I am WRITING!

I really hope they send Zuck and a whole bunch of them to prison for life. It doesn't look like this is anything we can ever roll back now. It's also sad to see how they intentionally killed Myspace, the original FB to up Facebooks value. I still miss My Sace for whatever reason it really worked on a social level, so much better than FB. Now I see FB trying to go retro and look like the old MS, people post the old glitter memes now.

Do the marketing people at your co. have those social media in their personal accounts?

yes people know it is already too late but it will be a crushing blow to see fb fold up, wither and die out and Z
have to face being humiliated by the whole world....and maybe
broke too.

So what other platform is rising to take over FB customers?

I'm sure there's another 30% of Tech Workers who either never participated in the first place or deleted that shit long ago (like me).

Isn't there one already? Why hasn't it caught on outside of its 'niche market?' Maybe what passes for 'conservatives' today can't come up with any interesting, original ideas of their own? They're living in the past, not the present and they don't seem to want much to do with the future, to which all innovation properly belongs.

That's just as true if you had prefaced 'social media' with leftist, or 'progressive.' They're not a bit progressive, are they? They're as rigid in their conformity as all those conservatives they don't like and just as terrified of self-analysis. They're more open to trying out the 'never tried before' than conservatives are, but having their feet firmly planted in mid-air keeps them from finding any realistic and practical ways to apply it.

And that's my point: social media with a political identity must perforce become an echo chamber, hostile to all outsiders, dissenters, questioners or anything they can't put a label on and all that becomes b-o-r-i-n-g very quickly, particularly for our short attention-spans of today. Politics is only interested in conformity, coercion and control, the same old shit through the centuries. It's as bad as organized religion and you'll generally see those two working hand in hand giving each other a feel.

There's a problem with that, you see. The people who created this technology, no matter how any person or media tried to represent them later, had to have one thing in common: absolutely free and independent thinking, as separate individuals - at least while they were doing that job.:) The creative leaps of mind that we call genius can never, ever be produced by a collective.

Don't you have an email account? I thought you had to have one to even register? I email all of my friends in other countries and have never had any issues.

Omg, what the hell did people do before email, internet and cell phones? Some people seriously can't think their way out of a paper bag.

They may want to stay long enough to delete their accumulated data before killing their account.

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You don't have a phone, email or the ability to text?

Have your own website! At first just post your name, a picture if you like, and whatever you want to say. Then add things carefully one by one: a message board, some links to other sites, etc. All of this stuff is available free, and you can get someone to help you for very cheap if you're not at all a computer nerd. Like, for $20.

I never understood the benefit of having a page on Zuckerberg's site, vs. having my very own websit on the internet. What Zuckerberg gives you is just some utilities that mirror what you can add to your own website anyway.

These were my thoughts 20 years ago and they're still my thoughts today.

For years I kept getting shit for not being on Fakebook, now what I told all of the idiots has been validated for them.

Why would these people think that their data is ever deleted?

Just look at the YouTube statistics what they used to keep track of. Even when it was new. they recorded exactly what portion of the video you watched etc etc.

They record everything you type every keystroke every Mouse click. Microphones record everything whether you are using them or not.

Seriously this is why they can invade Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan and none of these people are ever able to even actually carry out a terrorist attack in retaliation. Just think if these countries cannot even carry out any sort of retaliation neither can you when it's your turn.

Facebook share price have fallen -20%

Same here. My employer asked me to do it. Didn't work there long.