Chicken little. That's what came to mind when I read your reply.
If FB OR ANY other entiry gets you so upset then stop using it.
We all make choices. I always give this example.
My grandmother could have voted for every losing president during her lifetime but because of other more important choices like who to marry, whether to work hard or not, what people she associates with, when to have sex and if and when to create life her life became a function of those choices.
Why in anyone's name would a person by choice use or contemplate FB or any other entity if it makes you upset.
> If FB OR ANY other entiry gets you so upset then stop using it.
I posted this in another reply, but that's effectively impossible. Facebook collects data on you from friends and family that use it. How do you suggest I stop that? What about Facebooks's tracking code all over the internet? Know a foolproof way to block that too?
If you stop using Facebook, why would you care if they collect data on you from friends? How is what they do with it affecting you? You're not using their product! You know how often I wake up worried about what some company I don't do business with knows about me? Never.
> If you stop using Facebook, why would you care if they collect data on you from friends?
I think it comes from growing up in the USSR, where the threat of the government showing up at your door because of something you said was very real. What no one in the US seems to appreciate is that even a stable country is only one or two major crises from being in the same situation. This is surprising because McCarthyism[1] happened a mere 70 years ago - a blink of an eye by historical standards.
Do you really think that under a Neo-McCarthy government any information Facebook has about you would be kept private? That Facebook's precious social graph or Google's archive of your search history wouldn't be used against you? I think that's naive.
Foolproof no, but you should get the Ghostery browser extension. You can tell it to block all social media and advertising tracking on websites you visit. From what I can tell it's effective (websites that require a Facebook login, for example, are broken unless I tell Ghostery to "trust" that site).
Chicken little. That's what came to mind when I read your reply.
If FB OR ANY other entiry gets you so upset then stop using it.
We all make choices. I always give this example.
My grandmother could have voted for every losing president during her lifetime but because of other more important choices like who to marry, whether to work hard or not, what people she associates with, when to have sex and if and when to create life her life became a function of those choices.
Why in anyone's name would a person by choice use or contemplate FB or any other entity if it makes you upset.
I just don't get it.