Although I'd backed down to essentially just listing my name on the service, I finally took the lat step and deleted my account. Recognizing that the privacy situation is only going to get worse and never better, it was time.
(Note that I couldn't find another article that I wanted to add to this post on the astonishing amount of data Facebook kept on a single user.)
Anyway, it's been a few months now and I haven't regretted it at all.
The catch here of course is that I'm still using a lot of free services that trade on user data (including blogger where this is posted, owned by Google) but the sort of see/speak/hear-no-evil approach that Facebook carries in an ongoing way just seemed like a recipe for disaster.
The catch here of course is that I'm still using a lot of free services that trade on user data (including blogger where this is posted, owned by Google) but the sort of see/speak/hear-no-evil approach that Facebook carries in an ongoing way just seemed like a recipe for disaster.
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I have all but left Facebook, unfortunately they still have me in their clutches because I use Instagram. I have been contemplating deleting my facebook account but I don't know how that would effect my Instagram account.
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