Reasons to delete your Facebook account now

Here are reasons detailing how Facebook works against us.

1. Facebook is the ultimate time waster.

We are constantly time poor -- can you really afford six months of your life trawling through strangers’ holiday snaps? 2. Facebook is a money pit. In 2012 Facebook appealed to the government to sell shares of stock to the public. In the vicinity of $75 billion, Facebook’s “stocks” are the data that we input into our profiles. Facebook mines our information to sell companies who orchestrate invasive advertising campaigns.

3. Personal profiles are no longer private.

In a controversial move last year, Facebook retired the option to suppress your name from being visible in searches. Facebook is increasingly removing users’ rights to keep their information private, primarily through adding to the exhausting number of options available on the privacy panel. The only way to keep your profile suppressed from a person is to block them. 4. You can’t trust Facebook. This year, Facebook revealed its secret study of 689,000 users who did not give their consent. Facebook harvested users’ news feed interactions to develop a detailed report on “emotional contagion,” the ability to manipulate a person’s emotions through Facebook. This is just one example of Facebook’s unethical use of the public’s information.

Remember, the moment we enter information into Facebook, it is no longer our own. Facebook is constantly updating its terms of service making us safe today, but not tomorrow.