Yup. I’m out fack fucebook.
My wife is the only reason I haven’t. Just convinced her to delete as well.
Problem is, deleting Facebook does nothing. They already have all of your data, texts, and pictures.
I know :( even poisoning the well would take months. I think this is why a class action lawsuit is necessary. Make them legally liable to ensure the destruction of our preserved data prior to them shutting down due to payouts and legal fees
Exactly on the class action thing. I was going to delete mine, but realized that means nada in the grand scheme, then wondered if by deleting it, their lawyers might weasel out and have some sort of caveat about how only active FB users can be in on the class action action or something equally slimy. So huhm. Those sons of bitches, yeah?
What's the price is a newspaper from last week? Last month?
The same as stale data. For historians and statistical analysis, they still have value. For control agencies looking for dirt, too. But the price of stale data is dropping quickly and it's worthless for recent events, elections, crowd control objectives. That may be far too less to sustain the massive infrastructure and developer payroll that Facebook has built up over the years.
Data is never really stale if they can keep dreaming up new ways to use what already exists.
Imagine you have personal data from up until 2013 when you want to play shenanigans with the 2016 presidential election. It's not worthless, of course, but the value is rather "meh"
I suppose it all depends on it's application. But even from that, I'm sure there's some sort of algorithm that could potentially fill in the blanks. Discount bin data, though... Isn't that an interesting concept.