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in spite of the fact that there are well over a billion active facebook accounts

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it seems like tons of people are asking whether or not they should give up

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facebook in light of user fatigue data privacy scandals and just generally

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getting tired of your friends seeming far happier than you but do you really

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have a good reason to delete your account while we here at techwiki don't

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think there's a definitive yes or no answer to that question here are five

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reasons that you might want to at least think about whether to stay on the

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platform number one the information glut

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on facebook servers now obviously facebook is far from the only social

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media service out there but unlike a good number of the others facebook is

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trying to be a do it all service to a large extent you might have a twitter

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account to spit out a few quick thoughts snapchat to message your friends and

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google assistant to look up reviews of local businesses but facebook tries to

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integrate all that functionality onto one platform which means they're

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collecting tons of data about you if you're a frequent facebook user they may

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have even more info on you than anyone except for perhaps google

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and even with that facebook's social aspects means that it might be easier to

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accidentally expose something that you don't want to number two facebook just

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keeps on expanding although it was originally a much simpler site designed

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for college students to display basic information about themselves it's turned

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into not just a very versatile platform but a company that keeps buying smaller

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social media firms instagram and whatsapp are two major services that are

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now under the facebook umbrella and have been for some time and when you consider

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that instagram by itself has become the app for photo sharing it's

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understandable to feel like you need to use at least one of facebook services

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concerning how many people are on them so if you're concerned about limiting

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how much reach they have finding another service to use might be a good idea

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assuming that service stays independent three of course facebook couldn't

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acquire the other companies if they didn't make truckloads of money in the

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first place and the primary way that they've done this is via advertising but

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not in the conventional way like google facebook increases their ad success and

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therefore the rates they can charge by making sure that they're serving their

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users relevant ads kind of like how you see commercials targeted at old folks

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during daytime tv to do this they track your behavior not just on facebook

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itself but also on other sites that use facebook's API and social plugins you

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know like sites that allow you to like and comment with facebook furthermore

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whenever you're logged into the service facebook is tracking where you're going

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online it's basically like someone from the local grocery store falling around

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your home and watching what kind of meals you prepare so they can offer you

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relevant coupons next time you walk through the door and it understandably

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makes a lot of people really uncomfortable number four so far we've been mostly

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talking about how much data facebook collects but the bigger issue perhaps is

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how carefully they safeguard that data once they have it facebook has had

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plenty of high profile privacy mishaps over the years with the largest one

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being the cambridge analytica scandal where the data of 87 million users were

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shared without consent for political purposes another huge breach occurred

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just last year where 30 million accounts were compromised and it's also been

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revealed that facebook has been a contributor to the u.s government's domestic surveillance program if you

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care about such things also in a truly classic face palm moment several years

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ago it was discovered that facebook kept a large number of user passwords in a

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plain text document now this list was only intended for internal use by

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engineers but it was still a massive security risk that never should have

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happened and while facebook has publicly doubled down on commitment to user

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privacy in light of recent mishaps there's been enough of said mishaps over

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the years to raise more than a few eyebrows and finally number five getting

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away from privacy and user security there is of course the social aspect of

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social media a much more tangible problem for many users while this is

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more or less true for social media in general facebook has become a platform

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for people to showcase their lives and many of them simply put forward the best

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versions of themselves all the time where their lives seem exciting

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fulfilling and well adjusted even though this often isn't the whole story of

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what's going on with a person it is what many of us are constantly exposed to

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which has led to issues with envy and poor self-esteem and then of course

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there's the fatigue that comes with the other half of your friends list who all

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seem to be determined to put forward the worst versions of themselves what with

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the endless sniping back and forth about everything from politics to sports to

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tech brand loyalties it's exhausting so

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none of this means that facebook is just some kind of evil force and everyone

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should just get off of it right away maybe instead you just don't post

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anything that you care about keeping private maybe you only feel genuinely

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happy for your friend's successes and maybe getting targeted ads for adult

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diapers doesn't bother you at all but if these things do concern you then maybe

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it's worth it for you to take pause and determine if you really need facebook in

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your life besides you can always just take a break and see how that goes and

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