6 Reasons why you should quit facebook
Unless you’re new to the internet (and/or using a Hotmail e-mail address), you’re more than likely aware of the ongoing battle between Facebook and its users over privacy issues. Specifically, Facebook’s continually resetting privacy settings are pissing users off as they see their names and details strewn all over the internet.
Here are five reasons to join the other 12,000 sensible people who are quitting Facebook.
Unless you’re new to the internet (and/or using a Hotmail e-mail address), you’re more than likely aware of the ongoing battle between Facebook and its users over privacy issues. Specifically, Facebook’s continually resetting privacy settings are pissing users off as they see their names and details strewn all over the internet.
Here are five reasons to join the other 12,000 sensible people who are quitting Facebook.
1. One day, you’ll be hauled into court for something stupid (should’ve used lime, man). Suddenly, the opposition throws up a projection screen, plugs in a laptop, and pulls up your Facebook account. Six hundred drunken photos and foot-in-mouth status updates later, you find yourself in a cement square as prison’s freshest hunk of meat.
2. Even if you figure out your privacy settings, what’s stopping Facebook from throwing a wrench in the works? Every time the code monkeys insert a new string of code, users find all of their settings undone. Your mom would just love to see those photos of you on 4/20 at the top of her newsfeed. Oh right, reason 2A: your mom is on Facebook now.
3. One word: Farmville. All the time you spend on your virtual farm doing things that aren’t real could be spent at an actual job in which you make actual money; this money can then buy you a farm IRL, yield profits, and ultimately be WAY more productive than clicking on cows. Win.
4. Despite having 5,000 friends, you’re still alone. Facebook is no more an exercise in social skills than World of Warcraft (shh, it’ll be okay). Go outside for once and interact via Faceface, not Facebook — and don’t be frightened by the lack of links and text boxes.
5. As beautifully coined by South Park, “You Have 0 Friends.” Watch, learn, and repent. The internet has gone too far, but it’s not too late to escape… if you’re good at Yahtzee, anyway.
6. NYU students are working hard on creating an alternative to Facebook that will guarantee you privacy while still offering you all the great features of Facebook…like having “friends” and detagging ugly pictures. Stay on top of this and you can soon say you were one of the first users.
2. Even if you figure out your privacy settings, what’s stopping Facebook from throwing a wrench in the works? Every time the code monkeys insert a new string of code, users find all of their settings undone. Your mom would just love to see those photos of you on 4/20 at the top of her newsfeed. Oh right, reason 2A: your mom is on Facebook now.
3. One word: Farmville. All the time you spend on your virtual farm doing things that aren’t real could be spent at an actual job in which you make actual money; this money can then buy you a farm IRL, yield profits, and ultimately be WAY more productive than clicking on cows. Win.
4. Despite having 5,000 friends, you’re still alone. Facebook is no more an exercise in social skills than World of Warcraft (shh, it’ll be okay). Go outside for once and interact via Faceface, not Facebook — and don’t be frightened by the lack of links and text boxes.
5. As beautifully coined by South Park, “You Have 0 Friends.” Watch, learn, and repent. The internet has gone too far, but it’s not too late to escape… if you’re good at Yahtzee, anyway.
6. NYU students are working hard on creating an alternative to Facebook that will guarantee you privacy while still offering you all the great features of Facebook…like having “friends” and detagging ugly pictures. Stay on top of this and you can soon say you were one of the first users.
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