The question of whether we’ll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It’s probably when. That’s because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI’s interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we’ll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.
If Cambridge Analytica wasn’t enough of a reason to leave Facebook, then you will probably continue using Facebook today even after reading this.
Facebook should have been shutdown then. Actually, it should have been shutdown even before then since the Edward Snowden leaks.
The actions of users (or lack of user actions) from back then have brought us to the issues of today. The information has been out there for over a decade.
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Cambridge Analytica was not enough of a reason to leave Facebook for me, because at that point I had already stopped actively using the site a long time ago and deleting my effectively inactive account seemed like a lot of effort for very little practical purpose.
This article (or just the headline to be honest) was finally enough to push me to actually go through with logging in one last time to finally get rid of it.
You all still have Facebook accounts???
It’s really hard to get people to suffer mild inconvenience when they don’t emotionally connect with the benefits.
Most of facebook’s evils are remote and impersonal. Seeing your cousin’s baby photos is real and at hand.
Unfortunately a side hustle for me is buying cars, putting in some work, and flipping them. Facebook Marketplace has a grasp on the personal classified ads. Craigslist still exists, but results are slim in my area.
I really hate it because I’ll go to look at cars, but end up scrolling mindlessly on the feed.
Why, would a closed account be a problem for them? Imagine one day receiving a short video from your deceised mom saying hi and inviting you back to fb for a chat.
But only if you reactivate your account
You actually ever had one???
This is such a dumbass take. As in Trump level stupid.
It was trump level stupid to realize from the beginning that handing over your personal information on the internet was a bad idea?
That is stupid to you?
We learned not to do that shit before Facebook came out.
And within a very short time after it came out it became very obvious it was a bad idea as well.
Then you must be even older than I am then. Back in 03-04 no one my age was worried much about any data other than just publicly posting your SSN and photos of your IDs.
Worrying about your tweets and statuses was not a thing amongst my peers. At the time at least.
No one knew then what it would grow into. I didn’t even think it would last through college, much less til now, over 20 years later.
Some people were. It was a basic rule of the internet even then.
So you are projecting then? Calling me stupid?
You can’t actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.
That is because if they were to actually delete the account, it would give errors on previous posts you made being linked to nothing.
Every database does this.
But you can be certain that facebook would still do so even if it was possible to delete.
The best time to delete your accounts was a decade ago. The second best time is today.
Never had a Facebook account, never will, and so i will never know the joy of deleting it.
Been through it twice. You’re not really missing any joy, just the annoyance of really hoping you don’t accidentally “sign in using Facebook” on a random website and have to start the process over.
I already assume everything I wrote on the Internet is eternal. Of course, data is free and people will use it for stupid stuff like this. This doesn’t surprise me.
Unfortunately, same.
I’ve changed a lot in the years since I started, but I assume all of it is still out there.
I was raised by deep red parents, has the whole homeschool bullshit and everything.
Things were starting to fall apart like 20 years ago, but finally hit a huge breaking point just shy of 10 years ago.
A lot of shit I said back then is probably super bad and cringe. I think I’ve blocked a lot of it out just to preserve some sanity.
But yeah, it’s out there.
My friends created a FB account a long time ago, and I did end up using it briefly. I haven’t logged into the account in probably 10 years and have no clue what my password is. Thoughts on whether I should bother giving Meta more personal information in order to try to log in & delete that account?
Still can’t figure out why people started using that crap in the first place, didn’t this seem really obvious?
In any case, that also means Instagram too, you know that right?
I avoided that shitty website like the plague. Used a fake account to make an account for my quest 2, then used Oculess to cut it off from facebook forever, so I can just play my TeamBeef ports and indie vr games without big brother. Fuck facebook.
Deleted my account in Fall 2025 after +15 years. Felt good
I saw a documentary about this. I think they called it Caprica.
