We are fast approaching the 1-year anniversary of my own personal #DeleteFacebook campaign. I’ve wanted to write an update to my original article for a while, and I find the worldwide prevalence this past month to be the perfect time to reflect on the past year. One of the catalysts for this sudden explosion is, of course, the realization that Cambridge Analytica had data on ~50M Americans and used it to help the 2016 Trump campaign. Facebook’s role in this …
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I did it: I deleted Facebook. Well, not the company, just my profile on it. Not a soft-delete, either, but a full-blown, balls-to-walls delete that will no doubt make Zuckerberg weep softly into the night. I had contemplated this move for a while and finally took a step forward by putting up a status detailing that I would be unavailable via Facebook and logging out. That was two months ago. Eh, I think I'm done with Facebook for a while. …
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