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How to Delete Facebook: Should I Delete Facebook?
Facebook is hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, and this could be enough to turn you off the social network for good. We look at the reasons behind this, and explain how to permanently delete or temporarily delete Facebook if you decide to go ahead.Why are people deleting Facebook?
Cambridge Analytica is a company that combines consumer data with behavioural science to allow for highly targeted marketing. It stands accused that, over the past two years, it has exploited the data associated with 50 million Facebook profiles without their owners' knowledge.
This was made possible using a personality test app created by Global Science Research that went viral on the social network. It paid US Facebook members to take part, but in return it collected not only their own personal data but those of their friends. (See how to stop your friends sharing your Facebook data.)
This data was then sold on to Cambridge Analytica, which it used to build software that could predict and influence their voting choices through highly targeted advertising. It has been claimed that it was a factor in Donald Trump's success.
People are understandably annoyed that Facebook has allowed their data to be manipulated in such a fashion and without their knowledge, and they aren't happy with how it has handled the scandal. Rather than apologising, it claimed it wasn't a data breach and it had done nothing wrong - some very poor PR.
Vice-president Andrew Bosworth tweeted: “People chose to share their data with third-party apps and if those third-party apps did not follow the data agreements with us/users it is a violation. No systems were infiltrated, no passwords or information were stolen or hacked.”
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Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said nothing.
This loss of trust in Facebook reminds harks back to the early days of the social network's existence, when Zuckerberg told his Harvard friends that he was surprised by how easy it was to get people to give him their data. “People just submitted it... I don’t know why... They 'trust me'... dumb fucks," Zuckerberg wrote in an instant message.
Though Zuckerberg now claims to have matured and apologises for the earlier messages, people are not convinced he can be trusted with the personal data of the 2 billion people who use the network.
This loss of trust in Facebook reminds harks back to the early days of the social network's existence, when Zuckerberg told his Harvard friends that he was surprised by how easy it was to get people to give him their data. “People just submitted it... I don’t know why... They 'trust me'... dumb fucks," Zuckerberg wrote in an instant message.
Though Zuckerberg now claims to have matured and apologises for the earlier messages, people are not convinced he can be trusted with the personal data of the 2 billion people who use the network.