Each new scandal, from Russian election interference to Cambridge Analytica, just reinforces that he made the right decision, he says. He still uses Instagram to post photos and WhatsApp to message his wife, which makes him feel like a hypocrite since both are owned by Facebook. He's looking for ways to cut ties with those services, too, and limits his time on Instagram to once a night for 15 minutes.
After her month-long sabbatical from social media in February, Fatica says she still checked Facebook to get her kids' sports and school updates, but felt herself drifting away from that, too. She broke her Facebook habit in two steps.
First, she mass deleted a bunch of friends. Then, she unfriended her entire family. Fatica says she doesn't have any FOMO, or fear of missing out, and has found workarounds to get anything important she's missing on Facebook. When her son's all-star football photos were posted on a Facebook page, she got her sister to download them for her. Her book club now texts her with events and updates. As she weaned herself off Facebook, she began to spend less time on Instagram, too.
That has freed her up to write and to read. On her birthday in September, Fatica set a goal of reading 52 books in the coming year. She's already whipped through New stricter limits on screen time for the whole family are far easier to enforce now that she's not online as much.
Her new mantra: Less time on screens, more face time with her kids. Quitting Facebook is a more gradual process for Andre Viens, a year-old software developer and father of two from the Boston area.
The bitter divisiveness during the presidential election soured him on the experience. Friends who were Trump supporters tagged him to pick political fights. An independent voter who supported Hillary Clinton, Viens says he was dismayed to see people he knew sharing fake news and living in their own partisan bubble, only consuming posts that reinforced their beliefs. He found himself spending less and less time on Facebook.
About six months ago, Viens stopped signing into Facebook every day and deleted the app from his phone, relieved to be rid of the annoying pinging of notifications that interrupted his daily flow. He continued to check the mobile site every once in a while, but he didn't see enough updates from close friends to make it worthwhile. Resistance to the manipulative, capitalism-driven machine that social media has become is mounting. People are realising said machine is ultimately serving Silicon Valley, not us the consumers.
The piercing docudrama may well see scores of social media account deletions. Numerous commentators claim that the film will leave you wanting to wipe every last trace of yourself from the web.
But this resistance is not a new phenomenon. It has been long on the brew, especially since Facebook swallowed up Instagram and Whatsapp in and respectively. During the s, Facebook has been embroiled in a number of scandals which have harmed the image and brand of the company:. A Pew survey of more than 3, U. Another American survey with a smaller sample size by Tech. So why are Facebook users choosing to delete their profiles? Is it just because of concerns over privacy and data misuse, particularly following this series of scandals, or are there other reasons?
Evidence suggests that motivations are varied and complex. The information would be a signal to Facebook that people similar to a deactivated account holder might also buy the same thing. But he said Facebook benefits from not breaking out data about the portion of audience estimates of active versus deactivated users. So, because the estimated audience numbers it provides for campaign planning only include people it has shown ads to in the past 30 days, that estimate effectively removes some deactivated accounts.
This story came to be through the personal experience of your trusty reporter. Years after deleting the Facebook app off an old phone and never using it again, I found myself downloading it in mid-September for story research. I used an email address and password I thought would turn up that dummy account. Then suddenly, there it was, like some poltergeist: my old Facebook account. Or, so I thought. Somehow, Facebook had roused the thing like a monster disturbed from its two-and-a-half-year slumber.
I am not exaggerating when I say the frisson was palpable when the spirit of my defunct profile showed up reinvigorated on my phone. I had no way of proving that back in I had intended to permanently delete this revived account. While most everyday Facebook users might never get a direct response from the company regarding this sort of issue, I was in a privileged position as a reporter in regular contact with communications staff at the company.
The company would not provide any detail on how that would be represented in their internal data. People take a multistep process to both deactivate and delete their accounts. When they schedule an account for deletion, Facebook requires 30 days in which people cannot log back into the account before Facebook begins deleting their data. As far as Facebook was concerned, not only had I never deleted that old account, I had now signaled my intent to return to the news feed.
But this had been no temporary respite. And yes, there were those files showing my off-Facebook activity. Edmunds was the only company in this list that responded to a request to comment for this story. Edmunds did not respond to a direct question regarding whether the company is aware that some of the information it shares is appended to deactivated accounts.
The company has been more forthcoming about its off-Facebook data connections since it launched its Off-Facebook Activity tool on Data Privacy Day last year. If people have disabled off-Facebook activity data collection, those settings will apply if they deactivate their accounts afterwards.
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