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Slate: Deleting Facebook is an "insulting" act of white privilege.

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook It insults those who don’t...
glassy clown home
  03/21/18
"It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leavi...
bateful menage
  03/21/18
apparently businesses and poor people in third world countri...
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  03/21/18
Jesus H Christ
Slimy Corner
  03/21/18
SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVILEGE
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  03/21/18
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glassy clown home
  03/21/18
so wait, only whites are allowed to quit facebook? damn ...
French Laughsome Meetinghouse Fortuitous Meteor
  03/21/18
guy who lives in a first world country here, sup
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  03/21/18
jfc this is a new level of corporate cocksucking for libs ...
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  03/21/18
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slate psychic office
  03/21/18
Like my father before me and his father before him
Slimy Corner
  03/21/18
like something from a parody automatic SJWery generator
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  03/21/18
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"Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers ...
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  03/21/18
what shocks me is that people are shocked by this. it's been...
Bright site sweet tailpipe
  03/21/18
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sinister gas station
  03/21/18
(((APRIL GLASER)))
outnumbered insecure lay
  03/21/18
"If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, sce...
cheese-eating navy sandwich
  03/21/18
Oh so THAT'S why I'm alone
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  03/21/18
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  03/22/18
HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVEN SURVIVE WITHOUT THIS WEBSITE TH...
opaque wild kitty cat chapel
  03/22/18
(((LOL)))
mind-boggling yapping center
  03/21/18
Boycotting is detrimental to civil rights (black dude)
Crusty church
  03/21/18
don't drag blacks into this. this a kike advocating for a fe...
outnumbered insecure lay
  03/21/18
I'm obviously not reading this shit
Crusty church
  03/21/18
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low-t sick ticket booth
  03/21/18
Article doesn't actually mention race and tbh wasn't that ba...
Know-it-all Foreskin
  03/21/18
Was really hoping Tucker would discuss this tonight
glassy clown home
  03/22/18
i skimmed it and i'm not sure there's even a coherent argume...
Chest-beating school newt
  03/21/18
what do u expect from the website that employs Mark Joseph S...
Bright site sweet tailpipe
  03/21/18
Sure there was: People are reacting to FB privacy miscond...
Know-it-all Foreskin
  03/21/18
if ur important enough people will get in touch with you. an...
mind-boggling yapping center
  03/21/18
the weird part of the argument is basically "people org...
Charismatic Theater Stage Fat Ankles
  03/21/18
This guy has a point. If everyone deletes their facebook ac...
frum bat shit crazy dog poop cuckold
  03/22/18
Lmao
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Territorial citrine shrine love of her life
  03/22/18
Probably the greatest of privileges
Milky library
  03/21/18
tbf, the term "white" does not appear in the linke...
Primrose disgusting dingle berry
  03/21/18
Stfu you retarded fucking idiot
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glassy clown home
  03/22/18
this is certifiable insanity
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  03/21/18
USERS The Problem With #DeleteFacebook It insults those wh...
Primrose disgusting dingle berry
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WHY IS EVERY POINTLESS LIB ARTICLE SO FUCKING LONG
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  03/22/18
paid by word
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I read most of the article but I don’t understand how turnin...
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wut
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Never had a faceberg account crew checking in
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I gotta stop using xo as my only news source
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cr it sucks being absolutely correct and having people th...
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leaving the service would be a self-harming act. leaving the...
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  03/22/18
Typical xo hysteria. The point he is making is perfectly re...
Fantasy-prone Unhinged Laser Beams Abode
  03/22/18
So then don't leave. WTF am I missing here?
Territorial citrine shrine love of her life
  03/22/18
because they have businesses that advertise on Facebook? or ...
bearded brilliant filthpig juggernaut
  03/22/18
FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD!!!
jet-lagged hell dopamine
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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:50 PM
Author: glassy clown home

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook

It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving. And it suggests Facebook has failed consumers—when the company has really failed society.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/dont-deletefacebook-thats-not-good-enough.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655843)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: bateful menage

"It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving"

WTF does this even mean? Who CAN'T leave fbook if they want to?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656449)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: Charismatic Theater Stage Fat Ankles

apparently businesses and poor people in third world countries who get the internet bc FB gives it to them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35657704)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:51 PM
Author: Mustard greedy personal credit line



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Sapphire Keepsake Machete Really Tough Guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655873)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: galvanic parlor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658148)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Slimy Corner

Jesus H Christ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655874)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: High-end boyish stag film

SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVILEGE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655882)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: glassy clown home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655893)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: French Laughsome Meetinghouse Fortuitous Meteor

so wait, only whites are allowed to quit facebook?

damn you learn something new every day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655884)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: gold corn cake athletic conference

guy who lives in a first world country here, sup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655890)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: jet-lagged hell dopamine

jfc this is a new level of corporate cocksucking for libs

Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too. Which is why the initial answer to Facebook’s failings shouldn’t be to flee Facebook. We need to demand a better Facebook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655892)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: slate psychic office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655897)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Slimy Corner

Like my father before me and his father before him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655899)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: flushed adulterous milk friendly grandma

like something from a parody automatic SJWery generator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655894)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: obsidian razzmatazz blood rage idea he suggested

live tuna like$

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655901)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: cheese-eating navy sandwich



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655904)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:56 PM
Author: Sooty stage internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655912)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:27 PM
Author: glassy clown home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656169)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:28 PM
Author: Dashing giraffe institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656176)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 2:05 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Potus Whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659177)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:04 AM
Author: Umber Piazza Sex Offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659791)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:58 PM
Author: racy charcoal stage gaping

https://www.hebrewsurnames.com/GLASER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655919)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:13 PM
Author: Self-absorbed set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656043)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: sinister gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35657660)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: multi-colored native faggot firefighter

"Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers could break those terms and sell that data to whomever they wanted, including political operatives. This may not technically be a “breach” of Facebook’s platform, as the company has stressed. But it is a breach of trust."

LOL it wasn't even a breat breach if the holy ToS? Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655947)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:27 PM
Author: Bright site sweet tailpipe

what shocks me is that people are shocked by this. it's been known for years that facebook was doing this. their whole business model is based on this. Media alarms are only blaring now b/c of dat Trump Derangement Syndrome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656164)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: sinister gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35657662)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: outnumbered insecure lay

(((APRIL GLASER)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655968)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: cheese-eating navy sandwich

"If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, scene, and community already is—you’re alone,"

JFC she should burn for that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655976)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:26 PM
Author: Ebony Pocket Flask

Oh so THAT'S why I'm alone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656146)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Heady property background story



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:43 AM
Author: lemon very tactful knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659735)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:44 PM
Author: opaque wild kitty cat chapel

HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVEN SURVIVE WITHOUT THIS WEBSITE THAT DID NOT EXIST 15 YEARS AGO?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664714)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:06 PM
Author: mind-boggling yapping center

(((LOL)))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655982)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:07 PM
Author: Crusty church

Boycotting is detrimental to civil rights (black dude)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655989)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:08 PM
Author: outnumbered insecure lay

don't drag blacks into this. this a kike advocating for a fellow kike and his company. please focus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655998)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:10 PM
Author: Crusty church

I'm obviously not reading this shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656015)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:23 PM
Author: low-t sick ticket booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656136)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:12 PM
Author: Know-it-all Foreskin

Article doesn't actually mention race and tbh wasn't that bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656032)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: glassy clown home

Was really hoping Tucker would discuss this tonight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659127)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:13 PM
Author: Chest-beating school newt

i skimmed it and i'm not sure there's even a coherent argument there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656047)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:29 PM
Author: Bright site sweet tailpipe

what do u expect from the website that employs Mark Joseph Stern as its legal analyst?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656186)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Know-it-all Foreskin

Sure there was:

People are reacting to FB privacy misconduct by encouraging people to quit FB. But FB is ubiquitous. If you're a journalist or entertainer, you pretty much need to use it. It's the primary way many people organize events and keep up with friends. Leaving comes at a substantial cost for many people, and as a result even if it sucks they can't leave. So instead of quitting FB we should focus on making it better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656445)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: mind-boggling yapping center

if ur important enough people will get in touch with you. and havent businesses heard of a little thing called a website? fuck jewbook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656493)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Charismatic Theater Stage Fat Ankles

the weird part of the argument is basically "people organize parties via FB so if you quit FB and don't get invited to parties, you are the one with privilege"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658109)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:53 AM
Author: frum bat shit crazy dog poop cuckold

This guy has a point. If everyone deletes their facebook accounts we'll almost certainly revert back to a society of nomadic goat herders like we were 10 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659763)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:13 AM
Author: bearded brilliant filthpig juggernaut

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659811)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Territorial citrine shrine love of her life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660402)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:14 PM
Author: Milky library

Probably the greatest of privileges

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656052)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: Primrose disgusting dingle berry

tbf, the term "white" does not appear in the linked page

did not read it yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656500)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:02 PM
Author: salmon odious crackhouse people who are hurt

Stfu you retarded fucking idiot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656516)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: glassy clown home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659129)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: rough-skinned cream shitlib round eye

this is certifiable insanity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656501)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:02 PM
Author: Primrose disgusting dingle berry

USERS

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook

It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving. And it suggests Facebook has failed consumers—when the company has really failed society.

By APRIL GLASER

MARCH 21, 20183:46 PM

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Illustration: the Facebook app icon.

Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate.

People are mad at Facebook, and they should be. The company allowed thousands of app developers to extract their data through time-sucking games and pointless online quizzes. And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign’s voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica—a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections. This was the trade-off for logging in to see baby photos?

Whether Cambridge Analytica’s claims are inflated (only about 139 million people voted in the 2016 election, after all) is fair to debate, but the heart of the controversy is harder to dismiss: It now feels time to reconsider Facebook’s bargain. We gave the company the trust it asked for, along with our photos and thoughts and likes and shares. We all knew of course, that this information helped Facebook sell us to advertisers; fewer were probably aware that until a few years ago, app developers also had access to our data, even if it was there in the terms of service. Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers could break those terms and sell that data to whomever they wanted, including political operatives. This may not technically be a “breach” of Facebook’s platform, as the company has stressed. But it is a breach of trust.

Hence: #DeleteFacebook. The Twitter hashtag emerged in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, and began to feel like a movement Tuesday night when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton—a man whose company was sold to Facebook for $16 billion—tweeted that “It is time.”

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The #DeleteFacebook instinct is understandable: Just be done with it. Put your phone to your ear and call people. Use Twitter or Instagram—the latter of which is owned by Facebook, but hey, at the least it’s mostly made up of sun-dappled vacation photos. Write a letter! Talk to neighbors! Whatever you do to fill that void of connection, just walk away from Facebook. If you’re angry about what Facebook is doing, the logic goes, you should take your business elsewhere.

I understand this reaction, but it’s also an unfair one: Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too. Which is why the initial answer to Facebook’s failings shouldn’t be to flee Facebook. We need to demand a better Facebook.

I say all this as someone who basically did walk away from Facebook a few years ago. I still have an account, but I tend to just log on out of curiosity, to report a story, or to write the occasional life update. I don’t have the app on my phone, and I probably log in once a week. But I could afford to leave Facebook—and I did pay a cost for it. I’ve lost touch with friends. I don’t go out much anymore and don’t know when cool things I might like to go to are happening. I’m pretty much not a part of any scene anymore. I don’t know when old friends are in town I’d love to see. Back when I promoted art openings and booked music shows, I always had to make a Facebook event; if I wanted to do so again, I’d still have to go through Facebook. Leaving Facebook was a retreat. But not everyone has the luxury of making one.

For lots of people, leaving Facebook would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too.

Unlike broadcast television and radio, which are also free for the price of having to endure ads, on Facebook you can’t change the channel. If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, scene, and community already is—you’re alone, because for many people, Facebook is becoming the internet and the internet is becoming Facebook. Your business could have trouble reaching customers; your family might not gather on another social network; no one posts any events anywhere else. All of which means that leaving Facebook simply doesn’t make sense for many people. It’s a network effect, a kind of natural monopoly; migrating to another social network would only work if enough people migrate there, too. In other words, if you want to be a part of any social life or local political conversations or want to promote your work, that simply means being on Facebook.

Even when I left Facebook personally, I didn’t professionally. That’s because media outlets rely on Facebook, too. A huge chunk of the readers of my articles find them through Facebook—and if they like them, they share them on Facebook, so others can read them. But my work depended on Facebook before I was a journalist, too. When I was an activist working to defend online privacy and protect people from digital surveillance at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we would post our blog posts and events … yep, on Facebook. It’s one of the main ways we got the word out. The same was true at previous jobs. Every campaign or issue I was organizing around needed to have a presence on Facebook. Before Facebook, activists sent a lot of emails and made a lot of phone calls. It worked, but as soon as everyone started using Facebook, we had to be there too. Otherwise we risked invisibility.

Likewise, if you have a small business, sometimes a Facebook page is your online presence. If you’re not operating in the service industry or with a storefront, Yelp might not make sense. Facebook, for all its problems, has become a necessary part of life for people, one that they can’t afford to shed, personally or professionally.

And in countries with lower internet adoption, Facebook is often people’s foray onto the whole internet. Facebook’s Free Basics program is operating in 63 countries and municipalities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America—and with that, people get free access to Facebook and a small handful of websites that partner with Facebook, though they can’t access other sites or email. For those users, Facebook is, in a sense, the whole internet.

So sure, delete Facebook if you can. The company may not deserve your trust or your business, and you’ll have more free time to do other, better things. But if you can’t quit, that’s OK, too. That’s why #DeleteFacebook is the wrong message: It frames this as an issue of individual consumer choice. But it’s really a problem in search of a solution either from Facebook itself—changing its service so that its users really can feel safe—or from the government, which may need to step in and blow the whistle on Facebook’s entire business model.

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If you think Facebook is worth deleting over its issues, then call your elected official to regulate the company, as well as other companies, like Google, that profit from harvesting our personal details to sell ads tailored to us across the internet. Because it’s becoming clearer that we can’t trust these companies to regulate themselves, and these conversations about user privacy, security, and well-being are incredibly important for those who can’t afford to not be on Facebook.

There’s no comprehensive federal online privacy law in the U.S. Meanwhile, these companies have become some of the most powerful and wealthy entities in the world in large part thanks to having few checks on their data collection. The more we learn about that corporate surveillance, the less simple it is to dismiss it. It was only a few months ago that journalists learned that Facebook let advertisers target people based on hateful keywords, like “Jew haters” and “How to burn Jews.” And Facebook knew that Cambridge Analytica had wrongfully obtained tens of millions of their users’ data without saying a word publicly—and even then, it took two years and teams of journalists to write major stories about how bad the whole situation was to get Facebook to fess up.

So I’m with you, Facebook deleters, but only to a point. Because as constituents of Facebook, we also need to advocate for a safer platform for anyone who’s unable to hop off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656508)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:38 AM
Author: Mischievous Provocative Turdskin

WHY IS EVERY POINTLESS LIB ARTICLE SO FUCKING LONG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659727)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:49 PM
Author: jet-lagged hell dopamine

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664758)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:04 PM
Author: nubile irradiated sanctuary

I read most of the article but I don’t understand how turning off Facebook constitutes privilege.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656534)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: fragrant big-titted roommate

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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: startling place of business theater



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:48 AM
Author: Flirting Skinny Woman

Never had a faceberg account crew checking in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658916)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: exhilarant rusted patrolman pisswyrm

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659230)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:12 AM
Author: Sadistic trailer park preventive strike



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:32 AM
Author: Heady property background story

I gotta stop using xo as my only news source

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659073)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:40 AM
Author: Histrionic Rigpig



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:14 AM
Author: glittery irate den

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it sucks being absolutely correct and having people think you're just making shit up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659812)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:28 AM
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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone Unhinged Laser Beams Abode

Typical xo hysteria. The point he is making is perfectly reasonable - a lot of people now rely on Facebook, in some cases for their livelihood. Some degree of hardship would be involved for them to just leave.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660338)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: Territorial citrine shrine love of her life

So then don't leave. WTF am I missing here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660407)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: bearded brilliant filthpig juggernaut

because they have businesses that advertise on Facebook? or something else?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660410)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:49 PM
Author: jet-lagged hell dopamine

FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664757)