Ween Yourself off Facebook

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I haven't deleted my Facebook profile, but I have stopped using it. Their app has never been on my phone and I don't log into FB from my computer without using Incognito.

What really annoys me, though, is when someone creates a Page or an event on Facebook and then shares the bit.ly or ow.ly link re-directing me to Facebook instead of a webpage about the event. Then, without my knowledge, those people are circumventing my personal rules about visiting Facebook and the cookies FB places on my machine that can follow me across the internet whether I want it to or not.

I've also noticed a lot of spam coming to my Gmail account from Facebook's domain. It seems I'm being spammed at my [username]@facebook.com email address they forced on us all years ago and since I have email forwarding set up (since I never use FB), it's being forwarded to my Gmail.

When Facebook acquired Instagram I deleted my account and never signed on for WhatsApp. If someone is going to go through my data I'd rather they be someone I trust. For the most part I trust Google's "do no evil" over Zuckerberg and Co.'s "how can I make a buck off of you?"




Here's the list of Facebook information links he refers to in the video. All I did was copy and paste them from the video's description.

FB Passive Listening: http://goo.gl/y1CYR0
FB Reads Your Texts: http://goo.gl/x7nPfu
NSA FB Servers: http://goo.gl/dflG51
FB Privacy Listening Issues: http://goo.gl/nluYZB
FB Stores Your Recordings: http://goo.gl/bmY6bQ
FB Silently Updates TOS: http://goo.gl/ZAajME
FB Organic Reach Throttled: http://goo.gl/iPpuk4
FB FRAUD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHe...
FB and FBI: http://goo.gl/GuLBgV
Reddit Thread on FB Listening: http://goo.gl/imGjs8
Users Slam FB Listening: http://goo.gl/SQZ8Ny
How Audio Fingerprints Work: http://goo.gl/ndMlyh

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