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Slate: Deleting Facebook is an "insulting" act of white privilege.

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook It insults those who don’t...
onyx stirring psychic kitty cat
  03/21/18
"It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leavi...
Puce lodge
  03/21/18
apparently businesses and poor people in third world countri...
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Splenetic Jewess
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Jesus H Christ
Unhinged Impertinent Hunting Ground Senate
  03/21/18
SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVILEGE
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  03/21/18
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onyx stirring psychic kitty cat
  03/21/18
so wait, only whites are allowed to quit facebook? damn ...
laughsome coral dog poop
  03/21/18
guy who lives in a first world country here, sup
Magical Den Factory Reset Button
  03/21/18
jfc this is a new level of corporate cocksucking for libs ...
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Bull headed trip voyeur address
  03/21/18
Like my father before me and his father before him
Unhinged Impertinent Hunting Ground Senate
  03/21/18
like something from a parody automatic SJWery generator
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Big philosopher-king
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"Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers ...
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  03/21/18
what shocks me is that people are shocked by this. it's been...
french heaven
  03/21/18
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Big philosopher-king
  03/21/18
(((APRIL GLASER)))
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  03/21/18
"If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, sce...
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  03/21/18
Oh so THAT'S why I'm alone
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HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVEN SURVIVE WITHOUT THIS WEBSITE TH...
zippy meetinghouse
  03/22/18
(((LOL)))
Narrow-minded Menage
  03/21/18
Boycotting is detrimental to civil rights (black dude)
Well-lubricated Shitlib Ticket Booth
  03/21/18
don't drag blacks into this. this a kike advocating for a fe...
Ultramarine newt location
  03/21/18
I'm obviously not reading this shit
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Geriatric adventurous principal's office
  03/21/18
Article doesn't actually mention race and tbh wasn't that ba...
thirsty church sandwich
  03/21/18
Was really hoping Tucker would discuss this tonight
onyx stirring psychic kitty cat
  03/22/18
i skimmed it and i'm not sure there's even a coherent argume...
Glittery dilemma
  03/21/18
what do u expect from the website that employs Mark Joseph S...
french heaven
  03/21/18
Sure there was: People are reacting to FB privacy miscond...
thirsty church sandwich
  03/21/18
if ur important enough people will get in touch with you. an...
Narrow-minded Menage
  03/21/18
the weird part of the argument is basically "people org...
bistre water buffalo
  03/21/18
This guy has a point. If everyone deletes their facebook ac...
Awkward stain
  03/22/18
Lmao
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  03/22/18
Probably the greatest of privileges
Hilarious Avocado Area Pistol
  03/21/18
tbf, the term "white" does not appear in the linke...
razzle resort elastic band
  03/21/18
Stfu you retarded fucking idiot
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onyx stirring psychic kitty cat
  03/22/18
this is certifiable insanity
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  03/21/18
USERS The Problem With #DeleteFacebook It insults those wh...
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WHY IS EVERY POINTLESS LIB ARTICLE SO FUCKING LONG
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paid by word
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I read most of the article but I don’t understand how turnin...
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wut
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Never had a faceberg account crew checking in
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I gotta stop using xo as my only news source
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cr it sucks being absolutely correct and having people th...
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leaving the service would be a self-harming act. leaving the...
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Typical xo hysteria. The point he is making is perfectly re...
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So then don't leave. WTF am I missing here?
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because they have businesses that advertise on Facebook? or ...
yellow fear-inspiring school cafeteria
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FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD!!!
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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:50 PM
Author: onyx stirring psychic kitty cat

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook

It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving. And it suggests Facebook has failed consumers—when the company has really failed society.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/dont-deletefacebook-thats-not-good-enough.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655843)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: Puce lodge

"It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving"

WTF does this even mean? Who CAN'T leave fbook if they want to?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656449)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:13 PM
Author: bistre water buffalo

apparently businesses and poor people in third world countries who get the internet bc FB gives it to them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35657704)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:51 PM
Author: Splenetic Jewess



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: concupiscible mexican



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Ocher institution round eye



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Unhinged Impertinent Hunting Ground Senate

Jesus H Christ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655874)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: Flushed azn

SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVILEGE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655882)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: onyx stirring psychic kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655893)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: laughsome coral dog poop

so wait, only whites are allowed to quit facebook?

damn you learn something new every day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655884)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: Magical Den Factory Reset Button

guy who lives in a first world country here, sup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655890)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:54 PM
Author: swollen buck-toothed crackhouse

jfc this is a new level of corporate cocksucking for libs

Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too. Which is why the initial answer to Facebook’s failings shouldn’t be to flee Facebook. We need to demand a better Facebook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655892)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Bull headed trip voyeur address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655897)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Unhinged Impertinent Hunting Ground Senate

Like my father before me and his father before him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655899)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Nighttime Sweet Tailpipe Doctorate

like something from a parody automatic SJWery generator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655894)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone abode

live tuna like$

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655901)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:55 PM
Author: flesh public bath



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:56 PM
Author: honey-headed church building



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:27 PM
Author: onyx stirring psychic kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656169)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:28 PM
Author: Offensive magenta corner crotch



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 2:05 AM
Author: Vigorous Property People Who Are Hurt



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:04 AM
Author: Flirting underhanded base



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:58 PM
Author: contagious silver coldplay fan marketing idea

https://www.hebrewsurnames.com/GLASER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655919)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:13 PM
Author: Crawly organic girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656043)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: Big philosopher-king



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: Hyperactive supple striped hyena

"Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers could break those terms and sell that data to whomever they wanted, including political operatives. This may not technically be a “breach” of Facebook’s platform, as the company has stressed. But it is a breach of trust."

LOL it wasn't even a breat breach if the holy ToS? Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655947)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:27 PM
Author: french heaven

what shocks me is that people are shocked by this. it's been known for years that facebook was doing this. their whole business model is based on this. Media alarms are only blaring now b/c of dat Trump Derangement Syndrome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656164)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: Big philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35657662)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: Ultramarine newt location

(((APRIL GLASER)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655968)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: flesh public bath

"If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, scene, and community already is—you’re alone,"

JFC she should burn for that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655976)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:26 PM
Author: wine space

Oh so THAT'S why I'm alone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656146)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: lavender pozpig



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:43 AM
Author: Tan dysfunction weed whacker



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:44 PM
Author: zippy meetinghouse

HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVEN SURVIVE WITHOUT THIS WEBSITE THAT DID NOT EXIST 15 YEARS AGO?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664714)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:06 PM
Author: Narrow-minded Menage

(((LOL)))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655982)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:07 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Shitlib Ticket Booth

Boycotting is detrimental to civil rights (black dude)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655989)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:08 PM
Author: Ultramarine newt location

don't drag blacks into this. this a kike advocating for a fellow kike and his company. please focus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35655998)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:10 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Shitlib Ticket Booth

I'm obviously not reading this shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656015)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:23 PM
Author: Geriatric adventurous principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656136)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:12 PM
Author: thirsty church sandwich

Article doesn't actually mention race and tbh wasn't that bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656032)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: onyx stirring psychic kitty cat

Was really hoping Tucker would discuss this tonight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659127)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:13 PM
Author: Glittery dilemma

i skimmed it and i'm not sure there's even a coherent argument there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656047)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:29 PM
Author: french heaven

what do u expect from the website that employs Mark Joseph Stern as its legal analyst?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656186)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:55 PM
Author: thirsty church sandwich

Sure there was:

People are reacting to FB privacy misconduct by encouraging people to quit FB. But FB is ubiquitous. If you're a journalist or entertainer, you pretty much need to use it. It's the primary way many people organize events and keep up with friends. Leaving comes at a substantial cost for many people, and as a result even if it sucks they can't leave. So instead of quitting FB we should focus on making it better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656445)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:00 PM
Author: Narrow-minded Menage

if ur important enough people will get in touch with you. and havent businesses heard of a little thing called a website? fuck jewbook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656493)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: bistre water buffalo

the weird part of the argument is basically "people organize parties via FB so if you quit FB and don't get invited to parties, you are the one with privilege"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658109)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:53 AM
Author: Awkward stain

This guy has a point. If everyone deletes their facebook accounts we'll almost certainly revert back to a society of nomadic goat herders like we were 10 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659763)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:13 AM
Author: yellow fear-inspiring school cafeteria

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659811)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: aquamarine stag film sound barrier



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Date: March 21st, 2018 7:14 PM
Author: Hilarious Avocado Area Pistol

Probably the greatest of privileges

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656052)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: razzle resort elastic band

tbf, the term "white" does not appear in the linked page

did not read it yet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656500)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:02 PM
Author: Painfully Honest Friendly Grandma

Stfu you retarded fucking idiot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656516)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: onyx stirring psychic kitty cat



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: hairraiser coiffed locus

this is certifiable insanity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656501)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:02 PM
Author: razzle resort elastic band

USERS

The Problem With #DeleteFacebook

It insults those who don’t have the privilege of leaving. And it suggests Facebook has failed consumers—when the company has really failed society.

By APRIL GLASER

MARCH 21, 20183:46 PM

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Illustration: the Facebook app icon.

Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate.

People are mad at Facebook, and they should be. The company allowed thousands of app developers to extract their data through time-sucking games and pointless online quizzes. And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign’s voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica—a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections. This was the trade-off for logging in to see baby photos?

Whether Cambridge Analytica’s claims are inflated (only about 139 million people voted in the 2016 election, after all) is fair to debate, but the heart of the controversy is harder to dismiss: It now feels time to reconsider Facebook’s bargain. We gave the company the trust it asked for, along with our photos and thoughts and likes and shares. We all knew of course, that this information helped Facebook sell us to advertisers; fewer were probably aware that until a few years ago, app developers also had access to our data, even if it was there in the terms of service. Many certainly didn’t think that those app developers could break those terms and sell that data to whomever they wanted, including political operatives. This may not technically be a “breach” of Facebook’s platform, as the company has stressed. But it is a breach of trust.

Hence: #DeleteFacebook. The Twitter hashtag emerged in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, and began to feel like a movement Tuesday night when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton—a man whose company was sold to Facebook for $16 billion—tweeted that “It is time.”

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The #DeleteFacebook instinct is understandable: Just be done with it. Put your phone to your ear and call people. Use Twitter or Instagram—the latter of which is owned by Facebook, but hey, at the least it’s mostly made up of sun-dappled vacation photos. Write a letter! Talk to neighbors! Whatever you do to fill that void of connection, just walk away from Facebook. If you’re angry about what Facebook is doing, the logic goes, you should take your business elsewhere.

I understand this reaction, but it’s also an unfair one: Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too. Which is why the initial answer to Facebook’s failings shouldn’t be to flee Facebook. We need to demand a better Facebook.

I say all this as someone who basically did walk away from Facebook a few years ago. I still have an account, but I tend to just log on out of curiosity, to report a story, or to write the occasional life update. I don’t have the app on my phone, and I probably log in once a week. But I could afford to leave Facebook—and I did pay a cost for it. I’ve lost touch with friends. I don’t go out much anymore and don’t know when cool things I might like to go to are happening. I’m pretty much not a part of any scene anymore. I don’t know when old friends are in town I’d love to see. Back when I promoted art openings and booked music shows, I always had to make a Facebook event; if I wanted to do so again, I’d still have to go through Facebook. Leaving Facebook was a retreat. But not everyone has the luxury of making one.

For lots of people, leaving Facebook would be a self-harming act. And they deserve better from it, too.

Unlike broadcast television and radio, which are also free for the price of having to endure ads, on Facebook you can’t change the channel. If you leave Facebook—which is where your friends, scene, and community already is—you’re alone, because for many people, Facebook is becoming the internet and the internet is becoming Facebook. Your business could have trouble reaching customers; your family might not gather on another social network; no one posts any events anywhere else. All of which means that leaving Facebook simply doesn’t make sense for many people. It’s a network effect, a kind of natural monopoly; migrating to another social network would only work if enough people migrate there, too. In other words, if you want to be a part of any social life or local political conversations or want to promote your work, that simply means being on Facebook.

Even when I left Facebook personally, I didn’t professionally. That’s because media outlets rely on Facebook, too. A huge chunk of the readers of my articles find them through Facebook—and if they like them, they share them on Facebook, so others can read them. But my work depended on Facebook before I was a journalist, too. When I was an activist working to defend online privacy and protect people from digital surveillance at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we would post our blog posts and events … yep, on Facebook. It’s one of the main ways we got the word out. The same was true at previous jobs. Every campaign or issue I was organizing around needed to have a presence on Facebook. Before Facebook, activists sent a lot of emails and made a lot of phone calls. It worked, but as soon as everyone started using Facebook, we had to be there too. Otherwise we risked invisibility.

Likewise, if you have a small business, sometimes a Facebook page is your online presence. If you’re not operating in the service industry or with a storefront, Yelp might not make sense. Facebook, for all its problems, has become a necessary part of life for people, one that they can’t afford to shed, personally or professionally.

And in countries with lower internet adoption, Facebook is often people’s foray onto the whole internet. Facebook’s Free Basics program is operating in 63 countries and municipalities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America—and with that, people get free access to Facebook and a small handful of websites that partner with Facebook, though they can’t access other sites or email. For those users, Facebook is, in a sense, the whole internet.

So sure, delete Facebook if you can. The company may not deserve your trust or your business, and you’ll have more free time to do other, better things. But if you can’t quit, that’s OK, too. That’s why #DeleteFacebook is the wrong message: It frames this as an issue of individual consumer choice. But it’s really a problem in search of a solution either from Facebook itself—changing its service so that its users really can feel safe—or from the government, which may need to step in and blow the whistle on Facebook’s entire business model.

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If you think Facebook is worth deleting over its issues, then call your elected official to regulate the company, as well as other companies, like Google, that profit from harvesting our personal details to sell ads tailored to us across the internet. Because it’s becoming clearer that we can’t trust these companies to regulate themselves, and these conversations about user privacy, security, and well-being are incredibly important for those who can’t afford to not be on Facebook.

There’s no comprehensive federal online privacy law in the U.S. Meanwhile, these companies have become some of the most powerful and wealthy entities in the world in large part thanks to having few checks on their data collection. The more we learn about that corporate surveillance, the less simple it is to dismiss it. It was only a few months ago that journalists learned that Facebook let advertisers target people based on hateful keywords, like “Jew haters” and “How to burn Jews.” And Facebook knew that Cambridge Analytica had wrongfully obtained tens of millions of their users’ data without saying a word publicly—and even then, it took two years and teams of journalists to write major stories about how bad the whole situation was to get Facebook to fess up.

So I’m with you, Facebook deleters, but only to a point. Because as constituents of Facebook, we also need to advocate for a safer platform for anyone who’s unable to hop off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656508)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:38 AM
Author: unholy locale

WHY IS EVERY POINTLESS LIB ARTICLE SO FUCKING LONG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659727)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:49 PM
Author: swollen buck-toothed crackhouse

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664758)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 8:04 PM
Author: racy misanthropic state

I read most of the article but I don’t understand how turning off Facebook constitutes privilege.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35656534)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:50 PM
Author: talented theater

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658113)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: Curious useless brakes



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 12:48 AM
Author: Orange Degenerate

Never had a faceberg account crew checking in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35658916)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: Mentally impaired chest-beating fortuitous meteor foreskin

Hi!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659230)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 9:12 AM
Author: Vivacious bronze yarmulke



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 1:32 AM
Author: lavender pozpig

I gotta stop using xo as my only news source

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659073)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:40 AM
Author: 180 rough-skinned range trump supporter



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:14 AM
Author: heady selfie

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it sucks being absolutely correct and having people think you're just making shit up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659812)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 8:28 AM
Author: Useless Gold Private Investor Police Squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659860)



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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35659723)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Arousing pearl masturbator tanning salon

Typical xo hysteria. The point he is making is perfectly reasonable - a lot of people now rely on Facebook, in some cases for their livelihood. Some degree of hardship would be involved for them to just leave.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660338)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: aquamarine stag film sound barrier

So then don't leave. WTF am I missing here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660407)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: yellow fear-inspiring school cafeteria

because they have businesses that advertise on Facebook? or something else?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35660410)



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Date: March 22nd, 2018 7:49 PM
Author: swollen buck-toothed crackhouse

FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3924970&forum_id=2#35664757)