Thinking About Leaving Facebook?
But where do you go? Here are some ideas.
Facebook Inc and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been in the news for many reasons (most privacy-related) the past few years but the most noise was during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Without getting into much detail, a data company called Cambridge Analytica harvested copious amounts of user data from a bunch of apps they designed to create profiles of people which were then sold to political campaigns such as Trump2016 and Brexit. The said campaigns then created content that targetted these profiles and swayed favour in their direction or dissent in the direction of the opposition. It is considered to be the biggest data breach Facebook has ever had. For more details read the Wikipedia page or a simple Google would do.
In America, things got more turbulent for Facebook Inc after Mark Zuckerberg defended Trump’s statement promoting violence on the grounds of free speech. This was after he spent hours in court battling congress, which has some great cringe and laughs movements, some summarised in a video here.
One after another, the fiasco’s of Facebook Inc piled up along with the underlying fact that their business model is using our data, collected from all their apps, for commercial purposes have left people with a distaste for…
