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The simple solution to anyone concerned about this is to just stop using Facebook. I've done so and it turned out to be a great decision. Contrary to the belief that you'll be "left out," people can and do get in touch with you for the important things. SMS, email, phone, snapchat, etc all work really well today, and you can get your social news fix from reddit, HN, and elsewhere if you need it. I've gotten measurably happier and more productive once I stopped using FB completely and haven't lost touch with any of my friends.

I make well over $10,000 / month operating several mobile games.

Oh the horror.

I am so happy that early on in my career I failed at multiple attempts to get a job at Google (after having graduated Stanford in CS in 2008). Despite having already built some objectively impressive and popular projects used by millions of people, I was asked to solve boggle, random C trivia questions, and write a sort algorithm I'll never need in my career, all on a whiteboard, and I just wasn't comfortable with that style of interview.

I was upset for a while but just kept iterating on my own projects and now I am passively making far more than I ever would at Google even including generous stock grants (mid 7 figures). It's much more rewarding too, knowing I created my own destiny, and not just some middle engineer on a mothership living off of an easy adwords monopoly.

My suggestion to anyone who has the perseverance to get through a guide like this is to just forget Google and build something new yourself.