Megathread of Facebook’s terrible, horrible, no-good eternity

mostlysignssomeportents:

Bruce Sterling’s All Things Facebook
is a massive linkdump of the latest-and-greatest reasons to delete
Facebook (and possibly put Zuck and Sandberg on trial for crimes against
humanity). This morning’s post on Facebook’s tracking of non-Facebook users on Android came from here.

Some highlights:

* Facebook is the new crapware
[Natasha Lomas/Techcrunch]: “Crapware is named crapware for a reason.
Having paid to own hardware, why should people be forever saddled with
unwanted software, stub or otherwise?”

* Technological Sovereignty, Vol. 2:
“ This book deals with its psychological, social, political, ecological
and economic costs while it relates experiences to create Technological
Sovereignty.”

* What 284 Days Without Facebook Feels Like (Pure. F*cking. Joy)
[Jonathan Greene/Uncalendared] “What I Miss About Facebook? Nothing.
Even on the rare occasion when I saw an update that made me happy, that
joy was continually outweighed by the deluge of trash sent my way.”

* The fall of Facebook has only begun. [13D Research/Medium]: “The market is drastically underestimating the peril the company is in.”

* Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook
[Daniel Victor/New York Times] “I am doing this — after being on
Facebook for nearly 12 years — because my own values and the policies
and actions of Facebook have diverged to the point where I’m no longer
comfortable here.”

There’s so much more, though.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/28/zuckermonster-vs-reality.html