In an interview posted Sunday on Yahoo News’ Skullduggery podcast, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democratic Congresswoman, said she’s given up posting on Facebook FB, +0.14% and said she is also cutting back on her use of Twitter TWTR, -0.61% and Instagram, where she has 3.94 million followers and 3.2 million followers, respectively. Her official Facebook page has more than 738,300 followers.
In April 2018, Facebook said that 2 billion users likely have had their public profile information scraped by outsiders without their explicit permission. It also said that information from the profiles of up to 87 million people had their data “improperly shared” by Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political consulting firm that closed operations in May 2018. Facebook refrained from calling it a data breach and, instead, said Cambridge Analytica abused Facebook’s terms of service.
Sure, people use Facebook to network and log into their Tinder IAC, -1.50% account. Those left behind often take it personally, and may even have formed a co-dependent relationship with their Facebook friends, said Simon Rego, chief psychologist and Montefiore Medical Center in New York. People either send messages asking, “What’s wrong?” or, even worse, “What have I done?”
Deactivating attracts a lot of attention, albeit negative Many people temporarily deactivate their profile — so their data remains online — rather than delete it, Walfish said. Aside from the time associated with downloading and storing photographs, deactivation seems less harsh. “Deactivating also attracts a lot of attention, albeit negative,” she said. And for those who want to make a public statement, that attention is not exactly unwelcome.
Well, even though my phone stopped me from uninstalling it, I hid it. I've switched to Twitter. Facebook's algorithms are terrible. I'm honestly sick of social algorithms at all. Social engineering is just wrong.
Now if she would quit politics.
It’s obviously easy to quit Facebook. AOC is an idiot, but even she was able to figure out how to do it. Now if she would only quit politics and speaking, the human race would be much better.
I deleted my account long ago. That site is useless. Period.
I like that she went on Twitter to quit Facebook
It's hard to quit because I simply could care less🤗
Scraped by whom, facebook? Publish the culprits by name.
Oh its not hard, and it gets easier the longer you are away from it...
I quit too. Totally support AOC quitting FB!
Social medias is like social groups.... I am very popular in Insta because I say what everybody wants to listen. Facebook is my 'family' that annoying me and want that I behave like in Insta. Twitter I travel alone and meet new people.
Not easy, but you must.
Sorry but she seams radical !
REALLY WISH SHE WOULD QUIT TWITTER TOO. I GET TIRED OF HER CRAP. AND FOR THAT MATTER I WISH TLAIB AND OMAR WOULD QUIT TWITTER TOO. ALL 3 ARE RADICAL EXTREMISTS.
I quit Facebook in 2010. It’s easy.
it is. just leave and never log back in. that will be the end of it.
It’s called FOMO
She will still be on there. Watch.
GOOD JOB
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