I believe the term is pariah.
I disabled the app about three months ago. I now have to make a conscious decision to log in on my phone or computer. It means I go there maybe every third Saturday, do a quick review, find there is nothing there worth reviewing, and leave.
And yet the subscriber base has increased 10% from last year.
this privacy issue isn’t the issue... Facebook is, hands down, the best platform for reaching a large audience. And conservatives are effective in its use.
Like with all liberal groups - the more you know them the less you trust them...
My wife began using it to communicate with a group of friends from her high school days. When I got on I found it had great potential for community networks up here where we live in Norther Idaho. I've seen it help people with everything from runaway cattle or a need for firewood to emergency home repair after a wind storm.
That community networking was very useful during the last political campaign cycle, but in the process I may have done something that triggered a snowflake and resulted in my life time ban. That's when I learned that FB has no customer service and there is no way to appeal a ban or, more importantly, to find out what the offending action may have been.
I moved on and quit worrying about it, I lived without them before. BUt two weeks ago when I sat down at my desk to do some Christmas shopping, I discovered that I am also banned from Amazon. ...AMAZON! WTF? This shows the other side of how FB can be used to harm far beyond the personal insult of a personal account being disabled.
You have to assume they will use anything and everything they have for statistical/demographic analysis, probably sell it to advertisers (whether they admit it or not), and generally use it for their own purposes - to promote what they advocate, and impede that which they don't. There's also the not insignificant chance of their databases getting hacked and your information getting sold-to and used-by criminals.
I provide only the absolute bare minimum information, and in more than a few instances I may have made a "typo" or two in my information... Of course not intentional misinformation, that would violate most acceptable use policies, just the online version of a "boating accident."
Facebook, apparently in anticipation of this, had laid the legal groundwork to make it difficult for a competitor app. As much as people may dislike zuckerberg, their is no serious alternative.
Facebook basically exists so people can broadcast their personal information.
I know the company slurps and has had some breeches but considering what the whole thing is about it’s a bit like people who talk loudly at restaurants complaining that others at other tables end up listening to them.
MySpace is still active.........................We should all go there.....................
Facebook is basically an unregulated public utility that is out of control.
There is a reason why the telephone companies became regulated utilities more than 100 years ago.
Every day I am thankful I never signed up for this trash, even as family and friends did. My pastor still mentions his Facebook account about twice a month like he doesn’t realize who runs it.
Important to understand. On Facebook, you aren’t the user. You are the product.
“More people trust the calamari at a bris than trust Facebook right now.”
-Kennedy
I’ve never trusted them.