• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.

    But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don’t have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.

    I haven’t posted on FB in years.

  • frederick@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn’t rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.

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    3 days ago

    Unfortunately, I’m keeping mine to make a pipeline from there to actual content on Mastodon or BlueSky. But I basically put a URL in my bio and push a photo once a week.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    you don't

    at least it was. my family had posted photos and tagged me in them. At that point I hadn’t had a FB for almost a decade. this was years ago now, but I doubt they changed it.

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      3 days ago

      Nah, Facebook and Instagram are the worst. Facebook is some ad riddled, AI slop, filled late stage capitalism hellscape. Worth not using just for mental health.

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        3 days ago

        I quit all social media except for Lemmy, and I have to say it’s been great. Especially getting off of Twitter.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of “you” and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.

    More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don’t tell anyone your real phone number or email address.

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    4 days ago

    I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn’t really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don’t think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.

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    4 days ago

    I deleted my FB account years and years ago, and AFAIK it has never broken into my house and forced me to look at it. But of course Bonespurs takes office pretty soon so I guess nothing is certain.

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    4 days ago

    You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.