feature-request #DeleteFacebook

The jerks aren't even sponsoring any tags!

It's Time To Take A Stand!

Just replace them as a provider with MSN Passport; everybody got one of those when they customized their Active Desktop.

I didn't delete, because I'm weak, but I did deactivate my profile and convince several Messenger-using friends to install Signal.

@ShadowWizard I think the biggest way it will impact them is through employee recruiting and morale.

This is trending among the groups they hire from, and the stock being down 15% since the beginning of this isn't going to be thrilling their heavily-stock-compensated staff.

We'll see if I'm strong enough to hold out.

I don't expect them to go bankrupt.

but Zuckerberg doesn't just want to be profitable, he wants to have a good image for himself in history.

and right now, he is terrified of what is happening to that.

(I may be projecting but this is my narrative.)

He's being framed as someone who incompetently enabled privacy abuses because he didn't care about his users.

and it's no secret that Facebook has pretty liberal employees who do not like Trump, like most SFBA tech companies.

Facebook/Zuck's early investors and mentors included less moral characters like Thiel.

Yeah.

What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking? by James Allworth

> For the longest period of time, Facebook was an advertising business that dreamed of being something else other than an advertising business. It wanted to be a platform. [...] And so began the great five year Facebook data giveaway to developers: If you build your apps on our platform, we’ll give you more user data than you could possibly imagine.

This is a pretty nice analysis of how the Cambrige Analytica situation happened.

Obviously, #DeleteFacebook is not just about that, that's just a nice condensation point for built-up anti-Facebook energy.

Like many things, it seems to have been more privacy-destroying on Android than iOS.

I started using it for a while after they added Signal Protocol support, but now I'm just using Signal itself.

> Told to you by a 13 year old in honors

... What does "in honors" mean here?

Meanwhile on AQ.T: Looking for good resources for learning to communicate in a kind community

So the hour is pretty good... but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes aren't...

A spectacled person pulled on a rounded neck t-shirt and got stuck. Is there a word for that situation?...

If not, should there be one?

My reason to be happy: less than 7 hours until Formula 1 season begins.

I considered attending last year, but too far and too expensive and too hardly-see-anything-on-track.

A TV sport is for TV.

Austin circuit is spectacular though.