If you are still one of the few under 100 years old who is still active on Facebook, you should unsubscribe and leave it now. Of all the social networks, Facebook has proven time and time again that it is the worst. And we do not say it for a matter of opinion only, we give you 5 objective and proven reasons why Unsubscribing from Facebook is one of the best decisions you can make.
Facebook, as a social network, may be on the decline, but it still has some slack to it. Its huge number of users, how difficult it is to escape from it and that the average age is high (which means that many of these users do not try anything new and stay by inertia), have made it an old fashioned and depressing network, a source of hoaxes and endless hatred.
Facebook is toxic and these are the main reasons why you should leave it today.
1. Facebook spreads hate and hoaxes, knows it, and does nothing
No does nothing, because that information is the most commitment produces. That is, the one that makes people stay on the platform the longest, discussing with friends and family.
None of this matters to Facebook, which knows that tackling that would affect your profits, since less time interacting is less likely to click on an ad.
This has been revealed by the documents and statements of former workers of the social network, such as Frances Haugen, the last to present evidence.
She herself declared that "posting hateful content is the best way to grow" on the network, so there is an incentive to extend it and not touch it.
2. Facebook endangers even democracy itself
Haugen's papers also show how Facebook workers themselves have alerted several times that their platform puts even democracy as a system at risk.
Used by extremist groups, fanned by authoritarian regimes, and condoned by Facebook in the name of profit, Facebook leaders ignored those complaints and again.
Not only was it shown that Facebook served to plan events such as manipulating elections in several countries or the assault on the Capitol on January 6, it also served as a catalyst. Not only did he do nothing to stop it, but increased its visibility global.
3. Facebook is terrible for your mental health
Hoaxes and hate aren't the only problems Facebook creates. The studies they are clear and, besides, it is also terrible for your mental health.
Depression, anxiety, attention deficitproblems with food...
Not only that, Facebook itself conducted a study on the subject and found that Instagram, especially, was problematic for girls and adolescents. Your answer? The same as ever, try to hide it.
When his own results came to light, he tried to turn the tables and deny it.
4. Facebook is a constant assault on privacy
If you have an iPhone, you can check it by looking at the privacy labels with which it warns of the data it collects. All social networks do it, we are not going to deny it, but the Facebook list is almost endless.
It collects pretty much everything, and if there's a real Big Brother, it's Facebook.
5. Facebook collects data from you, even if you don't want to or are on Facebook
Here is something that many do not know. I'm not on Facebook and I have never been. When the idea was brought to my attention all those years ago, I thought it was the worst idea in the world, horrible and dangerous.
And even so, I have a profile on Facebook. He knows who I am, what my name is, the people I meet and much of what I do. How is it possible?
let me tell you about the “shadow profiles”.
Those profiles are of people who have never been on Facebook and they are very detailed, because they get them through the information of your friends and family on Facebook.
To begin with, he found me going in and reviewing the contact list of my acquaintances. He has seen me, he has looked at his data, he knows that I am not a person in his network and he has created a "shadow profile" to start collecting data about me. without my knowledge and consent.
Through metadata, photographs where everyone is tagged except me, information that my contacts are filtering... Little by little, I also have that profile on Facebook.
For a while, this was little more than a conspiracy theory, but no. In 2013 there was a data leak from Facebook and part of that data was from people who never signed up. Shadow profiles came to light.
But, as always with Facebook, they don't care about your freedom, your mental health or your consent. After all, these are the people who refer to children in their reports as: "Untapped wealth."
If these 5 reasons don't get you off Facebook at once, do it even if it's because it's been centuries out of fashion.