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xXeMoRaCeRXx
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Facebook: is it time we all deleted our accounts? Mar 20 2018, 02:40 PM

"On Saturday, the Observer revealed how Cambridge Analytica, a company funded by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer, acquired and exploited the data associated with 50m Facebook profiles. It appears that while Facebook had been aware of what the Observer described as “unprecedented data harvesting” for two years, it did not notify the affected users." "While some Facebook executives were busy defending their honour on Twitter over the weekend, it should be noted that Zuckerberg remained deafeningly silent. On Monday, Facebook’s shares dropped almost 7%, taking $36bn (£25.7bn) off the company’s valuation. Still, Zuckerberg remained silent. If you’re going to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right? Apparently, silence is Zuck’s way of being mature." Read the full article here

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Erebus
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Mar 20 2018, 03:42 PM

I mean I pretty much abandoned my account years ago

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WayOfLife
Posts: 75

Mar 20 2018, 09:59 PM

FB was and still is a site with many problems. I also know why I never had an account there.

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xXeMoRaCeRXx
Posts: 18231

Mar 21 2018, 09:25 AM

I have an account on it which I use, but I've always been a bit cautious about what I share on it. More so now!

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