31 Reasons Why
(we should quit Facebook)
On August 31, 2020, I will quit Facebook. Until then, here are 31 reasons—one more every day!—to help you understand this decision.
And for the final days, here are 10 solutions to get out.
- #01
Escape the Cycle of Dependency
- #02
It’s Time-Consuming
- #03
More Fake News
- #04
It Foments Extremism
- #05
The Propagation of Hate Speech
- #06
Waiting for Notifications
- #07
A (fake) Measure of Social Status
- #08
To Exist in the Eyes of Others
- #09
Too Many Ads
- #10
Facebook Knows Too Much About Its Users
- #11
We Are Constantly Being Followed
- #12
Continuous Geolocation
- #13
A World-Wide Facial Recognition System
- #14
Shadow Profiles
- #15
The Dispossession of Personal Data
- #16
Facebook Threatens our Right to Privacy
- #17
The Prediction of Our Behaviour
- #18
The Modification of Our Behaviour
- #19
The Division of Knowledge
- #20
Capital Outflow
- #21
Facebook Hurts the Local Economy
- #22
Control Over the Market
- #23
The Hold Over Information
- #24
The Middleman of All Communications
- #25
Political Interference
- #26
An Unfettered Capitalism
- #27
The Dictatorship of Foreclosed Alternatives
- #28
An Unprecedented Species of Power
- #29
The Right to an Autonomous Future
- #30
A Threat to Democracy
- #31
Exclusion From Public and Social Life?