I'm glad I deleted my account months ago. Delete yours today. Don't @ me if you're just gonna say "muh friends and family".
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/facebook-is-it-time-we-all-deleted-our-accounts
@starbreaker
best day is torching your fb day......
@starbreaker Deleted my FB account also. But it's also good to give friends and family information about more ethical alternatives.
FB will be truly doomed if I can get my mom and her friends to migrate here or to something like this: https://diasp.org/
@ekansa @starbreaker if I can get my parents to migrate here, *I* will be truly doomed
@starbreaker I will do, as soon as I get an accessible alternative. 😟
@starbreaker Deleted mine in 2010. Funnily enough, it was a South Park episode that triggered me to do it. Privacy concerns came afterwards.
@starbreaker I have a long dormant account that I'm going to post to for the last time this weekend, with contact details and such. After a week, I'll delete the account, and commence with an un-clouding process (Facebook, Twitter, and Google, at least), and a consolidation of my internet presence. I think it's time.
@kevinja Great idea.
@kevinja @starbreaker I reeeeeeeaaaaally need to get rid of all my Google accounts :\ anyone know of a similar platform where one can collaborate with people on documents/spreadsheets/etc?
@ajdonovan2k @kevinja Nothing that isn't proprietary shit. Can you teach your colleagues to use git?
@starbreaker @kevinja looking at this now. Thanks!
@ajdonovan2k @starbreaker Yeah, Google is going to be the hardest to untether from, for sure. I have a GMail, a Google music account (which my kids use), I watch a fair bit of YouTube, and I am a sometimes Android developer.
As far as office docs go, you're right - they've choked the air out of the competition on that market too. I don't know of anything that works as well as Google Docs for collaboration.
@kevinja @starbreaker I mostly use Fastmail now for email, and already use DDG, StartPage and FireFox for interneting. But yeah, drive/docs/etc will be hard to replace - especially when most people aren't going to want to switch services.
@feld Worse than that, Facebook is a preview of Hell: a high school reunion that never ends.
@starbreaker Oh hell yeah! I am 3 months facebook free. One of the best decisions that I've ever made.