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Comment by MrDresden | Hacker News Reader

I'm a year and a half in on the removal of Facebook from my life. Deleted the account and didn't look back. Has not had any impact on my social or professional life. I'd recommend doing the same.

I am currenlty well on my way in the process of uncondition myself from using Instagram, and I haven't touched WA in months.

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Count me as another data point. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it has not affected my social or professional life in any noticeable way. I was worried I would lose access to my Oculus purchases, but I did not.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was reading my ads profile summary in Facebook settings. It claimed I was in “Established Adult Family Life with Children” or something similar. This was revolting. I was disturbed that Facebook seemed to know I was expecting a baby. I realized that Facebook was extracting far more value than it was giving, so I deleted my account.

I was genuinly sad when Facebook bought Oculus as I knew they would never be able to resist the temptation to add all kinds of data harvesting to it.

And so I have not yet bought my self a VR set. Thankfully Valve stepped up last year.

I clicked on "Interest Categories" deep in ad settings and FB is reporting an error. Is there another way to get at its assessment of me?

I actually had the opposite experience: my profile was so inaccurate. It said I had kids when I don't, for example.

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