Recent updates to Meta’s help center reveal the company’s tentative steps towards transparency and user control (or lack thereof) over personal data.
Opting out is likely impossible for people living outside the GDPR area right now.
The funny thing is that Facebook already has so much of our older data that they can use, even if you delete your account now you never know what they will do with it in the future. In 2008 when I got peer pressured by my work colleagues by saying that if I don’t create an account then they will do it for me and I didn’t want to be misrepresented on where I knew most of the people already were.
I dont believe the most teachingful conversations have happened on facebook
I think a lot of great content and conversations happened between 2007 and 2013 or something like that.
It’s too late for the gen x or boomers but is there any indication that the younger generations are not crating Facebook accounts?
Instagram is also owned by Meta
Yes but you don’t see articles about instagram as much as Facebook. It’s too late for us old timers but the journalists should focus on them instead.
