[kictanet] The case for and against #deletefacebook

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Ali,
>
> Facebook was built for and is meant for *sharing*! With time, I have seen
> FB make us want to share more and more, recommend to us 'friends' at every
> turn and inevitably there will be a clash between the sharing and our
> privacy!
>
> Also, there was a time our Newsfeeds were very clean, you'd actually get
> to know what your friends were upto, but I do find its now looking
> unrecognizable; its become this very noisy marketplace! Or maybe I am
> gettitng old :-)
>
> Privacy unfortunately plays 2nd fiddle to sharing. For me, the straw that
> broke the proverbial camels back is seeing photos that I had taken on my
> phone already auto-uploaded and semi-shared in my timeline, and with an
> absent minded click, I would have shared all on the my timeline!
>
> I got the app off my phone immediately, but kept the web desktop as I do
> continue to use it once in a while.
>
> I have also seen that FB has been collecting all our Phone records, calls
> + SMS as written about on Verge...
> https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-
> history-sms-data-collection-android
>
> So, I guess if you're still using FB on Android, you gotta be 'strong'!
>
> P.S
> Does FB and other Apps synchronize their data policies with those of the
> users home country?
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> Hope you all had a great weekend. Here’s an interesting article on the
>> ongoing Facebook fallout.
>>
>> Excerpt:-
>>
>> I spent the evening with a friend who is far bolder than me. Having
>> deactivated his Facebook
>> <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=72be6926f14318baaea3a7380b00c95467207ed12354af5a388d60d1b5ede0afbdd78c249b8c1f825a3519c8563f1652ec3ff8a6232f4164> profile
>> three years ago, he upped the ante this week by deleting his Instagram
>> account. Even more drastically, he plans officially to *delete* his
>> long-dormant Facebook account—the last vestige of his serfhood in Mr.
>> Zuckerberg’s fiefdom—sometime very soon, after his girlfriend has had an
>> opportunity to port its photos elsewhere. (He prefers offline storage.)
>>
>> Read on:-
>>
>> https://view.email.fortune.com/?qs=55840ef3733ec70e7bbf70681
>> a1fdf4ef688af63cc3bc7eef1a6466871482204b1da0994a47ddc4eb36e5
>> 5eca2c6a6c64c45c7cb49127419dc577951543699845cefb5000f8f8cbb
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>> *Principal*
>> *Hussein & Associates*
>> +254 0713 601113
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
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