However, the recent Cambridge Analytica and stories surrounding Russian interference in the U.S. elections has magnified the issues surrounding privacy. All the negative attention on how Facebook manages user day has caused many repercussions. The company’s stock value has taken a hit, the #DeleteFacebook movement is trending on Twitter, Facebook investors are suing over the scandal. Mark Zuckerberg himself has been out front and center for damage control. He first broke his silence with a post on his personal Facebook page and making the media rounds. He has done several interviews with tech sites and an interview on CNN. Since its inception, we have written several stories about the creepiness of Facebook, making it work better for you, and how to improve security and protect your privacy. No matter what you decide to do with Facebook, take a moment to review some of the following articles to ensure you’re getting the most from the social service. If none of the links below peak your interest, make sure to browse through our complete archive of helpful Facebook articles.
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So, when do users decide that, “enough is enough” and we don’t need your service anyway. If you step back and look at it, Facebook is not much more than a time-wasting exercise that typically just gets you in a bad mood anyway. What vital function does it serve that you can’t live without? Whether you delete your Facebook account, lock down your privacy, or continue to use it as normal, leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Now go ahead and sound off about Facebook in the comment section below. How do you really feel about the service? Rants are welcomed – but please keep things clean and civil. It doesn’t offer much and if I wasn’t a tech journalist and covering it, I wouldn’t have an account at all. This so-called filtration doesn’t concern me and I’m not worried at all. Facebook should be seen as a social media (entertainment) and no as a “serious” way of expression. That’s my humble opinion. I’ve known about Robert Mercer and Cambridge Analytica for about nine months due to the Guardian investigation. I wasn’t that surprised:only the scale and sophistication was unexpected. What did surprise me is that it’s taken so long to get the story out to a wide audience, given that a cute kitten can go viral in 24 hours…. Maybe that’s where the Guardian went wrong: they should have run a cute picture…. As far as I’m concerned, the battle for privacy should have been fought about 15 years ago. Now, it’s way too late, the damage is done. I assume that whatever some agent or other wants to know about me is available from so many sources that I have no chance of staging a digital disappearance. From here on, the main security issue will be safeguarding future data. No doubt, the usual suspects will use the opportunity to do the opposite. There’s been a lot of trailing of the idea of a two-speed internet. The first move now will be a separate high-security net which, in due course, will ‘happen’ to be much faster than the plebeian version. The old world took centuries to plug most of the holes in paper systems and still never became completely watertight. The new world faces a far vaster problem which may only ever be as impregnable as a sieve in my lifetime down even to the third generation. if facebook or any other data collector/analyzer wants to use my habits as a basis of data sale to others they should contact me, pay me, and give me control over what i share… yeah, right!! using facebook is like publishing your telephone number and tell the advert’s to call you. it also says to scammers “here i be so stick me.” We have to pay for internet access, slow and sporadic as it may be, so we should be entitled to privacy in its use. Go to: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/23/facebook_and_the_future/ And review it. Then do a search on Register for FACEBOOK. This site has kept me informed for many years and the many facets of IT and much, much else. Comment Name * Email *
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