“Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook?” David Nield writes for Gizmodo. “This is a great time to completely eradicate yourself from social media.”
“All of these online services let you scrub out your accounts if you want a cleaner, leaner life online,” Nield writes. “Even better, plenty of them let you export your data for safekeeping before you do.”
“So you can always remember that time The Rock answered your desperate tweets or your roommate plastered your Facebook wall with photos of your dog,” Nield writes. “Here’s how you can delete, and back up, accounts from most major social media services.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Number of MacDailyNews staffers with personal Facebook accounts: Zero (0).
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Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet – May 27, 2016
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FCC won’t force Google and Facebook to stop tracking you – November 6, 2015
European Commission: Don’t use Facebook if you don’t want to be spied on – March 27, 2015
Edward Snowden’s privacy tips: ‘Get rid of Dropbox,” avoid Facebook and Google – October 13, 2014
Tim Berners-Lee: You should own your personal data, not Google, Facebook, Amazon, and advertisers – October 8, 2014
Facebook conducts massive psychology experiment on 700,000 unaware users, and you may have been a guinea pig – June 28, 2014
Why Apple really values your privacy – unlike Google, Facebook, or Amazon – June 25, 2014
U.S. NSA used Facebook to hack into computers – March 12, 2014
How to permanently delete your Facebook account – December 16, 2013
Study finds link between number of Facebook friends and ‘socially disruptive’ narcissism – April 10, 2012
Social Media Suicide is GOOD!
Try it.. I did
Good luck trying that with word press.
A top gallerist in LA advised a group of us artists to use FB; It’s essential for self-promo. reasons.
the bet way to promote yourself as an artist is to identify yourself as an artist when you post comments on macdailynews
Have not seen it personally, but some employers require workers to hand over Social Media PWs as a condition of employment.
I have tried to “reduce” my digital footprint. Though you may achieve success in some areas. Others are impossible as the host doesn’t even try to care. Having unique un-identifying IDs is a good way to start. Therefore you may abandon that ID without having to worry it will bother you later. I mean it’s not an excuse to troll, but it’s a way to keep your DFP in control and purge when you feel like it.
Tell this to your children. They need to know before they ruin their life, as the term goes.
MDN staff, I though I was the only human left not on ridiculous FB. Good, there’s a few of us.
I decoupled from social media after going gangbusters on it for a couple of years. I decided no social media for the summer, and my god it was nice! So I deleted nearly every account I had except one:
I have deleted all the content from my Facebook but I haven’t deleted the account. Why? Phone numbers change, emails change, addresses change. Facebooks, on the other hand, remain the same.
I was once in London where an old friend had moved. I didn’t have his new number and he had always used work email accounts. So after jumping on Facebook, getting in touch was very straightforward.
Until someone can tell me how to do that without a Facebook, the account will sadly have to remain.
“Until someone can tell me how to do that without a Facebook, the account will sadly have to remain.”
@ So,
I cut myself from social media years ago and I went back to focusing on my family and core friends. You can use a phone, email and face to face interactions. I even forced myself not to respond to many of the taunting posts on this website. Just do it.