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Originally posted by OcCurt:
Stay on Facebook.

Lock everything down to view "only me". Put up some non-descript photo of a car, or train or tree or whatever as your profile photo.

Then log out. Post nothing. Update nothing. Comment on nothing. View nothing, Click on nothing.

Log in on Christmas and wish someone Merry Christmas, change your profile pic to something equally non-descript. Then log out again until next Christmas

For all intents and purposes become a dead account and dead weight. Let FaceWaste show an inflated value with seventy million dead accounts on the balance sheet.

Let advertisers spend money marketing to seventy million dead accounts. Let investors buy stock on seventy million dead accounts. Let FaceWaste pay fees, taxes, maintenance or whatever on seventy million dead accounts.

One vote can make a difference. Why not one dead account.

Probably the best thing one can do.

We stopped all facebook advertising earlier this spring. We've begun utilizing other sites, and pointing people to our our website instead of social media sites. There may come a day when I'll delete facebook, but until that day...it has been extremely effective at several things. No one should be confused though, if it is on your phone...they're spying on you. Everything you do, place you travel, choice you make...is being tracked, monetized, and sold.

Going to be leaving Faceturd and Instashit as well. Started the same for me, friends and family, but it’s not worth contributing to such strong liberal manipulators. If they tried to silence or restrict my voice in person I’d lay them out but since they hide behind their pantywaists screen to silence conservatives, it’s about the best thing I can think of to take away my contribution to their strength. Maybe if more drop them they’d lose business to the point of hurting. I’m sure it won’t turn that way but like the OP said, I’ll sleep better.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
Stay on Facebook.

Absolutely not.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:
... Why not one dead account.

Because, "dead" or not: FB can count it as an active account. This boosts their subscriber numbers, which, in turn, boosts their advert and partner revenue.

I didn't quit Facebook over their numerous, egregious privacy and security violations over the years. I quit Facebook so they could not longer count me as a subscriber. So my mere existence of my account could no longer make them money.

Here are some more, also owned by Facebook, I'll never use: Instagram, Oculus VR, and WhatsApp.

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Originally posted by OcCurt

Lock everything down to view "only me".

Because Facebook is a virus and will still be mining every post, photo, etc. every algorithm update they make so they can sell it. That's why people are running scripts to delete everything and then deleting their account. They'll already have the old stuff on you but at least they won't be adding to it.

If you just can't personally function without FB, you might be a millennial or later generation. I didn't have a personal computer until 1996 when I was 43.

In a world where everything is connected, and some might find it all too easy to feel disconnected, I don't mind ... grew up disconnected LOL.

I don't have a cell phone either, nor cable or satellite TV service. I do have a roof top antenna and pick up all the alphabet networks but seldom watch them unless it's a Saturday college football game.

I do have high speed DSL internet along with my phone landline and enjoy streaming internet radio stations to my home stereo, watching free movies about four or five times a week and reading free books.

Had FB for about 11yrs. I was active there too, spending many hours a day on FB. I was on FB more than any other site, including SIGforum. FB was usually the first and last site I visited EVERY day. About 2yrs ago, I tried going 6mos without FB and without deleting my FB profile as a trial run ... my life didn't miss a beat. Finally set my FB profile for permanent deletion last month ... my life hasn't missed a beat. Yours may or may not.

My browser is Firefox and when I had FB, one of the things I did to hinder FB tracking was download an addon called "Facebook Container". Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies. I also visit my financial and shopping sites using Firefox multi-account containers. No tracking to or from those sites and no shared personal information via cookies.

I run "Disconnect" and "uBlock Origin" addons in my Firefox browser as well. I didn't see ANY ads on FB.

Feels like I've done about all I can do to block trackers and ads ... but tracking and ads wasn't why I was finally fed up with FB to begin with

I never did Facebook. I never did Twitter. There is a new Virtual Reality set that I would really like to try out but it was developed by Facebook and I guess you need an account to use it. So I guess I won't be getting one of those anytime soon either.

Not trying to be argumentative, but expanding on the points I made previously. This is an interesting conversation.

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Because, "dead" or not: FB can count it as an active account. This boosts their subscriber numbers, which, in turn, boosts their advert and partner revenue.

Which I addressed. I want them to have inflated, misleading numbers. I want advertisers and other supporters to spend money based on those inflated numbers. That's a good thing as it costs them money on a worthless target audience.

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Because Facebook is a virus and will still be mining every post, photo, etc. every algorithm update they make so they can sell it.

Good. FaceWaste pays good money to do all that data mining, updating, maintenance and such. If you're not posting, clicking, viewing, liking, commenting, downloading or saving anything what is there to mine? I hope those algorithms are both time consuming and expensive.

Maybe I'm coming at this wrong. I'll be the first to admit I'm by no means an IT or industry expert. Maybe I'm not seeing what others are because I have so little Social Media footprint.

I have less than fifteen posts (Almost all to family or friends-"Hey thanks for having me over for the game on Saturday. Great seeing you guys again")on FB for the last fourteen years. Only three pictures that show me personally and less than twenty pictures overall. I only joined a few groups, none of which were political.

I never put FB on my phone(s) iPads, work computers/laptops.

I never have or ever will sign up for Insta, Twitter, Oculus or any of the rest of that shit.

I never put political affiliations or anything even remotely controversial on FB. I never listed birthdays, jobs etc. and I never "tagged" anybody. I never bought anything off of FB or bought anything because it was advertised on FB.

FB probably lost money on me.

As jljones pointed out, there are a hundred data points a day that single you out, from smart phones to smart cars. If you are connected to the internet then Big Tech and Big Brother already got you. As to FB's revenue stream-if you leave they no longer make money on you-cool. If you stay as dead weight they still don't make any money on you and if enough dead weight is there it will cost them money-also cool.

I like the idea of costing them money.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:

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Because, "dead" or not: FB can count it as an active account. This boosts their subscriber numbers, which, in turn, boosts their advert and partner revenue.

Which I addressed. I want them to have inflated, misleading numbers. I want advertisers and other supporters to spend money based on those inflated numbers. That's a good thing as it costs them money on a worthless target audience.

I'm sorry, but that strikes me as nonsensical.

The problem is Facebook's undue influence on American society and the fact they use that to sway people in a direction they like.

The problem isn't their advertisers. The problem is them.

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Originally posted by OcCurt:

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Because Facebook is a virus and will still be mining every post, photo, etc. every algorithm update they make so they can sell it.

Good. FaceWaste pays good money to do all that data mining, updating, maintenance and such. If you're not posting, clicking, viewing, liking, commenting, downloading or saving anything what is there to mine? I hope those algorithms are both time consuming and expensive.

Maybe I'm coming at this wrong. I'll be the first to admit I'm by no means an IT or industry expert. Maybe I'm not seeing what others are because I have so little Social Media footprint.

Yes, you're falling for the trap that you represent the normal and everyone is like you. Most people 50 years old and under have a pretty large digital footprint.

I know that my situation is not normal (it's normal for oil & gas) as my job moves me every few years (time zones not down the street), and I have friends all over the globe. Facebook used to be a great way to stay in touch with people (some of those people move around like I do so contact numbers change). A few examples of random meet-ups that were made possible by FB:

I was on vacation in wine country in Willamette Valley, OR, and posted that I was heading back to the airport in Portland which was seen by my old college roomate had recently moved to Portland so we met up for coffee.

Posted a Purdue football bowl game and ended up arranging to meet up at half time with some Purdue friends I hadn't seen in 10 years. There were tens of thousands of people there and they were several sections away so it's unlikely we would have bumped into each other without me posting a pic from our fantastic seats.

I became more and more guarded and quit posting my location while traveling. A lot of security/safety upside to doing that, but the downside was one of the benefits of random meet-ups with people went away. I started only posting select vacation photos after I had already returned home, posting about a sporting event after I returned home, posting about a business trip after I returned home, etc.

Then the political climate got heated to the point that friends of over a decade couldn't even be civil and agree to disagree (e.g. kneeling at National Anthem in NFL). My posting switched to being more of sharing funny memes.

Then, FB itself quit being a platform and started being political. I'd wind up in FB jail for reposting a funny meme I had posted 2 years prior. Their behavior this election season was the final straw.

FB makes advertiser dollars based on the number of people they have. A mass exodus would impact their bottom line, and if there was explosive growth at a viable conservative site then the advertising dollars should follow and increase its chance of success.

I want Facebook to either go the way of My Space or get so scared of going under that they undergo a major reformation.

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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer.

The dirty assed commies at FB just removed the ability for the script to delete old posts:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
The dirty assed commies at FB just removed the ability for the script to delete old posts:

Facebook recently entirely re-vamped their web UI. The activity log, which is what Social Book Post Manager used, doesn't have even remotely the same format it did up until a couple weeks ago, so it won't work anymore.

Good guess, but it was working up until an hour before I posted. It switched from the "are you sure" delete pop-up to the one I posted. Additionally, when I manually do it I get the same thing so it's a FB intervention not a UI issue with the script. Clearing cache and rebooting doesn't matter, manually deleting in a different browser doesn't matter, etc.