in spite of the fact that there are well over a billion active facebook accounts
it seems like tons of people are asking whether or not they should give up
facebook in light of user fatigue data privacy scandals and just generally
getting tired of your friends seeming far happier than you but do you really
have a good reason to delete your account while we here at techwiki don't
think there's a definitive yes or no answer to that question here are five
reasons that you might want to at least think about whether to stay on the
platform number one the information glut
on facebook servers now obviously facebook is far from the only social
media service out there but unlike a good number of the others facebook is
trying to be a do it all service to a large extent you might have a twitter
account to spit out a few quick thoughts snapchat to message your friends and
google assistant to look up reviews of local businesses but facebook tries to
integrate all that functionality onto one platform which means they're
collecting tons of data about you if you're a frequent facebook user they may
have even more info on you than anyone except for perhaps google
and even with that facebook's social aspects means that it might be easier to
accidentally expose something that you don't want to number two facebook just
keeps on expanding although it was originally a much simpler site designed
for college students to display basic information about themselves it's turned
into not just a very versatile platform but a company that keeps buying smaller
social media firms instagram and whatsapp are two major services that are
now under the facebook umbrella and have been for some time and when you consider
that instagram by itself has become the app for photo sharing it's
understandable to feel like you need to use at least one of facebook services
concerning how many people are on them so if you're concerned about limiting
how much reach they have finding another service to use might be a good idea
assuming that service stays independent three of course facebook couldn't
acquire the other companies if they didn't make truckloads of money in the
first place and the primary way that they've done this is via advertising but
not in the conventional way like google facebook increases their ad success and
therefore the rates they can charge by making sure that they're serving their
users relevant ads kind of like how you see commercials targeted at old folks
during daytime tv to do this they track your behavior not just on facebook
itself but also on other sites that use facebook's API and social plugins you
know like sites that allow you to like and comment with facebook furthermore
whenever you're logged into the service facebook is tracking where you're going
online it's basically like someone from the local grocery store falling around
your home and watching what kind of meals you prepare so they can offer you
relevant coupons next time you walk through the door and it understandably
makes a lot of people really uncomfortable number four so far we've been mostly
talking about how much data facebook collects but the bigger issue perhaps is
how carefully they safeguard that data once they have it facebook has had
plenty of high profile privacy mishaps over the years with the largest one
being the cambridge analytica scandal where the data of 87 million users were
shared without consent for political purposes another huge breach occurred
just last year where 30 million accounts were compromised and it's also been
revealed that facebook has been a contributor to the u.s government's domestic surveillance program if you
care about such things also in a truly classic face palm moment several years
ago it was discovered that facebook kept a large number of user passwords in a
plain text document now this list was only intended for internal use by
engineers but it was still a massive security risk that never should have
happened and while facebook has publicly doubled down on commitment to user
privacy in light of recent mishaps there's been enough of said mishaps over
the years to raise more than a few eyebrows and finally number five getting
away from privacy and user security there is of course the social aspect of
social media a much more tangible problem for many users while this is
more or less true for social media in general facebook has become a platform
for people to showcase their lives and many of them simply put forward the best
versions of themselves all the time where their lives seem exciting
fulfilling and well adjusted even though this often isn't the whole story of
what's going on with a person it is what many of us are constantly exposed to
which has led to issues with envy and poor self-esteem and then of course
there's the fatigue that comes with the other half of your friends list who all
seem to be determined to put forward the worst versions of themselves what with
the endless sniping back and forth about everything from politics to sports to
tech brand loyalties it's exhausting so
none of this means that facebook is just some kind of evil force and everyone
should just get off of it right away maybe instead you just don't post
anything that you care about keeping private maybe you only feel genuinely
happy for your friend's successes and maybe getting targeted ads for adult
diapers doesn't bother you at all but if these things do concern you then maybe
it's worth it for you to take pause and determine if you really need facebook in
your life besides you can always just take a break and see how that goes and
then come back to it later if you find out that getting new likes is the dope
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