by Hyo Razuki » Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:14 am
I registered a Facebook account when I was in Universtiy due to peer pressure and I still have it. A lot of things concerning my courses and stuff would be posted by fellow students on FB back and I didn't wanna miss out on the information. I'm planning to delete it soon, though.
I mean if someone needs it to stay in touch with their friends, it's fine. Still, I manage to stay in touch with friends and family through phone, email, text messages, even letters and so on. Absolutely no need for FB.
Also I don't get this "FB helped me get back in touch with an old friend whom I hadn't met in 8 years" thing. If somebody doesn't bother to give you a phone call, write you an email or text message in years and you didn't do so either and you were fine in your life without that person why on earth would you bother to get in touch with them after such a long time?
And if you never had someone's phone number or email address or postal adress, well then you were never friends with that person. You might have been acquaintances at best, so why get back in touch?
That said, I think FB is ok. And about the data mining: FB can only get the data you feed it. So watch what you write in there and say in there, watch what pictures you feed it. Also, do you really have to give it your birthdate? Your employer? If you give it that information, don't complain about FB knowing too much about you.