Social media is already a devil, except for fediverse-based social media sites, those are the only exception. Facebook is particularly one of these devils, I would call Facebook Satan, the king of all social media fiends. I want to give you reasons why you should not use Facebook again, or any social media made by Facebook (sorry, Meta, except that is the last time I’m calling the company by that name). No amount of convincing will make me use that DEVIL of a social media, same with Instagram (Satan’s sidekick), not even becoming god of the whole universe will make me use Facebook or Instagram (or Threads).

Cambridge Analytica

Yes, that event was years ago, but privacy advocates will never let that go when advocating for more privacy. The point is that Facebook takes your user data, and sells it to advertisers to sell creepy ads. Of course, you Gen Z and Boomer people who use Instagram and Facebook respectively think privacy is not something to worry about, if that’s the case, post a picture with your car license plate, social security number and house address all in one (NO CENSORING THE SENSITIVE STUFF). You said you have nothing to hide, right? Why are you hiding shit from us? You trying to cook meth inside your house? Or maybe you’re cooking some other drugs or other illicit goods in your house and car. Though those private information may as well be known by Facebook and the companies they sell it to.

I am trying to say that you have everything to protect, not hide. Privacy is about protection, and many people stalk others using social media, like Facebook and Instagram, just look up the many stalker cases that involve social media in some form. If you want direct examples from the creepy advertisements thing, look at what Signal was going to put up on Facebook’s ads, it told you things that Facebook knew directly about you, Jason Rose, who is obese and is contemplating suicide and in a very abusive relationship. Yeah, I may not have called you out, but I called someone out, and that is what Signal was trying to do, shed some light on how creepy Facebook truly is.

Obscene requirements to sign up

Why should I be expected to give my first and last name to sign up for social-fucking-media?! Every other social media only requires an email, or phone number at most, not your first name. I mean, yeah, you can track down someone’s real name using a phone number, but it takes more effort, that’s why it is just obscene. I may sound nit-picky, but I think there should be a standard for what social medias require, and a first name should not be even an option to place in, since it causes more dangers than aids.

Censorship

No, I am not gonna be one of those christian conservative asshats that say they are censoring what is clearly hate speech, but I will point out that they censored reports that were critical of Facebook, which is just unwarrented. Corporate America is just sadistic and sociopathic, which is why we need to be critical of them. If you don’t believe me, read here. This is just insulting, since the whole point of social media was to spread information found by smaller or individual sources, hence why it was called social media.

Facebook really needs to let people speak critically about things that would be sensitive to the company.

I don’t want to keep going about this

As I type this, this topic just makes me more angry. If you still aren’t convinced, then either you are a boomer who should just reveal all of your personally identifiable information, or you’re a Gen Z who should just do the same thing. If you are one of the few angels who actually listened and want to delete your Facebook or Instagram Account, then I would recommend getting a guide to delete it from JustDeleteMe. This is because Facebook makes it insanely difficult to delete your account, for some fiendish reason. TL;DR, just delete your Facebook and/or Instagram account, and stop supporting the Devil that is a social media company.