Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's leaving Facebook

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's leaving Facebook, amid concerns about security safeguards on the personal information that users share with the social media giant.

"I am in the process of leaving Facebook. It's brought me more negatives than positives," Wozniak wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. "Apple has more secure ways to share things about yourself. I can still deal with old school email and text messages."

Later in the day, the "Woz" Facebook profile at which the messaged had been posted was no longer accessible and appeared to have been deleted. An effort to contact Wozniak via his cellphone was unsuccessful.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/08/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-says-hes-leaving-facebook/497392002/

[democratisphere]

1. Good on Steve Wozniak for quitting and dropping fakebook.

emails and texting doesn't need to involve the whole damn world.

[Skittles]

3. people are afraid they will have to put some effort into "keeping up with friends and family"

it's a lot of bullshit

[democratisphere]

8. Snail mail, email with attachments and texting work just fine.

The whole damn world doesn't need to know every move you make or every breath you take!

[Skittles]

10. oh I agree

I have never joined that POS site

[pnwmom]

5. If people use Google, Twitter, or other social media and think they're a lot safer

because they don't use Facebook, they're fooling themselves.

[democratisphere]

9. Google is collecting data on individuals more than even fakebook.

Don't trust Google for a second!

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Google reads your private email

I'm an engineer, sometimes I correspond with old colleagues on my gmail. They'll email me about software tools they wonder if I've used. Sure enough, I'll start seeing articles and advertisements for those software tools around the internet. Very specific tools associated with my field, not stuff I've ever looked up in a browser, just stuff that I've only ever seen referred to in a private email.

We need a wake up call, we've given up our privacy for convenience and I don't think most people even realize how much.

[CentralMass]

16. Yes. I have experienced this type of thing as well.

[JNelson6563]

2. #DeleteFacebook

Just do it.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. I have a site, but I hardly ever use it

I was told I needed one as an independent artist.

But I never did like it and now even less.

Why doesn't someone jump in and fill the void. Start a Facebook like site where there is no huge profit motive. Kind of like Craig's list. Where you are not tracked. Not fed into an algorithm. It could even be like DU where you can use it for free, but with random ads from your geographical area, or you can pay a small sum to have an ad free experience. But the main point of the site would be that there is an assurance that there would be no retention of your information or tracking your activity. It would just be independent individual pages that you tell others about if they want to see it.

Or at least have it set up when you join to be completely free of any algorithm tracking program, but if you want to activate it, because you want to be fed links that the algorithm finds for you, then fine.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Hard to compete

Here's the thing about Facebook, it's got a lot of pretty cool features that were very expensive to develop, implement, and maintain. Selling ad space isn't going to generate the revenue needed. Facebook realized this from the start, they always knew the product they were selling was the user's data.

The User's and their data is the product Facebook sells.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. You are probably right. I am no expert in how that all works

I guess I would be suggesting then more that any ad revenue could at least help to keep the site running, not make huge profits. My point was finding someone that does not care about obscene profits.

And I was bringing up Craig's list as an example as an organization that resists bells and whistles that are expensive to develop. Even resists pop up ads which would be so easy to implement. Yet Craig Newmark is still worth something like $1.4 billion by last estimates, by just charging for employment ads, or apartment rentals. How much is enough?

I think a new Facebook replacement, stripped down from the bells and whistles, and most importantly publicizing the fact that they will NOT make their money selling user's data, would get attention. But the basic ability to post images, stories, and promote yourself or business, have an online friend circle etc..would remain. I would join that in a heart beat.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. Perhaps a mass exodus is on the horizon?

Nah...people love their conveniences and indulgences, even if they prove to be doing them harm.

[Sherman A1]

7. His choice

as it is that of others.

[moondust]

14. Woz was on Ali Velshi's show

a little while ago. He doesn't think Facebook will change much due to Zuckerberg's "personality," which I took to mean that Zuckerberg has shown himself to be too greedy to give up his business model.

[CentralMass]

15. I've considered deleting mine as well.

[DavidDvorkin]

17. I was never aware of his presence there.