Be a pioneer – delete Facebook

Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention.

I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?

> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us.

This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.

More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.

I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.

I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.

Yeh did that in 2014 the day they filled my friends status feed with ads then news, where's my trophy?

There is literally no real benefit to having and using Facebook.