There ain’t no such thing as a free service, and why I’m giving up #facebook in 2019.
▻https://hackernoon.com/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-service-and-why-i-m-giving-up-faceboo
I have been on Facebook since Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 8:36 PM CDT, I know this because Facebook has kept track of that for all of these years. In the 12 years I have been on the platform I have reacted to 8,283 posts, removed 474 friends, responded to 668 events (most of which are Maybe), and have imported 664 contacts from my phone into the network. I knew Facebook kept track of things, and I’m honestly not surprised by how much information they keep track of. In total my information dump I received from Facebook was 2.26gb which also included all of my photos and videos in medium quality (of which accounted for 1.78gb). I’m also not against a company collecting information in this manner so long as they aren’t reckless with it.Searching for new’s articles on Google with the (...)