The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

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Jason Clarke did it first, and now I feel the time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook.

For me, it started getting creepy when I kept getting status updates from people who are not even my friends, and who have no idea they’re broadcasting their status to “friends of friends”.

Sure, you can control that through the privacy settings. But how many people actually know all 170 privacy settings?

There’s a huge difference between reading bad things about a company, and witnessing it yourself in the UI you use every day. And that’s where it crosses the line for me. I mean, whenever a company does well (and Facebook is doing very well), there are detractors crying out about how evil it all is. Usually, this is just a knee-jerk response to a company growing large. I think that on some basic level, some people just don’t like large, successful anything.

But today’s Facebook actually has a split personality; on the one hand, it puts on a super-friendly, smiley-happy face for newcomers and non-geeks. On the other hand, to prevent your personal information from getting all over the place, you need to be a super-educated and “paranoid” geek.

Since when did privacy become “for geeks only”?

And it’s also a matter of trust; Facebook has an interesting habit of opting users in to all sorts of new schemes. I suddenly found out I was included in their information sharing scheme with other sites. I just randomly discovered this. I’m just plain sick and tired of having to watch over Facebook’s shoulder every day, trying to figure out what they added or changed to make my information more broadly available.

The bottom line is that it’s just not worth it, at least for me. Goodbye, Facebook.

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

RIP

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

I reactivated my real FB account…got overwhelmed with all the stuff that was happening on there, so deactivated it again..:bummer:

I’ll stick to my GS FB account. :smiley:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

My real one is deactivated too :bummer:
GS one is active :@:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

^^ I dont have a real or fake. I just have one for internet :smiley: LOL

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

:smilestar: GS a/c isnt fake:@:

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LOL then what it is for? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

Its for GS friends and contacts:@:

Now now dont u call them fake:emmy:

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let me complete the sentence :@:

Its for GS friends and contacts, who are fake :@:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

:emmy:

they are all real people in the real world with real lives :@:

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they are all real people in the real world with real lives on your fake fb ID :@:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

:smilestar: its not fake :emmy:
its a GS real id for GS real ppl :mocking:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

i got only 1 n its real …i dont like keeping many accounts :aj:

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its a GS real id for GS real ppl for your fake internet :@:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

bhanje :lifey:

aaho :smilestar: real GS id for real GS ppl with mera internet :barbie:

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real GS id for real GS ppl with mera fake internet :@:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

**more thn 1 account is definitely fake
**

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

Having a few wrong pieces of info in an account doesn’t mean the account is fake.

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

^^ few wrong? :smiley:

If you say I am owner of a whole Village its just one wrong line but a whole wrong concept for others LOL :smiley:

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Re: The time has come for me to say goodbye to Facebook too

:rotfl: hehehehe…I have only one FB account and it is ALL real