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*(Via The Daily Beast) – There’s no easy way to quit Facebook. And even if you do, Facebook won’t quit you.
For every smug friend who posts about abandoning the platform after Cambridge Analytica’s massive data breach, there are countless other users who have found it impossible to leave.
Quitting means more than removing the app from your phone, which may curb your personal use but won’t strip Facebook’s ability to collect your data or access information about your life. Quitting means wholesale deleting your Facebook account, or at least deactivating it.
I’m one of the many users who’ve attempted this feat only to come crawling back. I deactivated my account for a total of 72 hours once in 2009, but rejoined when I wanted to look up an old friend’s phone number.
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The primary reason most people find staying off Facebook so difficult is the network effect.
Facebook has amassed more than 2 billion monthly users, and for many millennials, it served as our first introduction to social media. Millions of us have maintained accounts since at least high school or college, and our brothers, sisters, parents, and families inevitably followed.
Quitting means missing out on life updates from friends and relatives, on engagements and wedding photos, and all the other big life events that people don’t send cards about anymore, since they figure you’ll see the news on Facebook.
But Facebook isn’t just about keeping up with new life events, it’s also about looking back on your own. Because there’s no quick and easy way to download or export the massive trove of photos and memories many users keep locked up on the platform, deleting Facebook can be like throwing out years of family photo albums.
It also means missing out on in-person events.
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