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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by bigiain on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:38PM (#18749682)
Sure - but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg.

I know we've lost that fight - but it doesn't mean it's not worth resisting.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by krn on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:46PM (#18749710)
> but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg.

If that's the main reason to quit Facebook, the question should have been: "Did you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts in 2018?". Yet, somehow nobody asks that question.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by bigiain on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:53PM (#18749735)
Well, not _quite_ "nobody". But yeah, I recognise I'm many standard deviations away from "normal" here... (I've also booted Twitter, and exiting Google is in-progress - except for the work GSuite account...)
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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by holri on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:18AM (#18750728)
"Did you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts in 2018?"

Not possible, because I did not have any of these accounts in the first place. And I have a pretty normal social life with lots of technology, friends and activity.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by bigato on Monday December 24, 2018 @06:52AM (#18751720)
Would mind elaborating about what part of the world you live in, and what are your strategies to finding out about events and interesting things to do? Because here in my country, more and more people use facebook to spread the word about events.
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