>TINFOIL GUYS!!!!!
guys don't just deactivate your FB acc, request deletion, beacuse if you deactivate and use any services like any page login or any social services like insta, and you use your FB credentials to login, the gets reactivated and your news feed even shows what you have missed in the mean time , so all of the (your) data is still in their servers

@AndSoWeCode
-I'm not 12, so no wieners
-Found other places for discussion
-Just opened out of curiosity after 11 months and the tumour within me has become malignant

@AndSoWeCode why would you even open an account in the first place? I'm doing fine without one. If something requires facebook login to use I don't use it.

@Bikonja Me too.

If you aren't paying for it then you are the product being bought and sold.

Why would I be interested in telling some corporation/government who all my friends are and what I (and they) really think? It's Big Brother's wet dream.

@AndSoWeCode well that's your problem right there, you want to talk to PEOPLE :) I'll have none of that, thank you :)

But seriously, the people I actually do want to contact I do so via text messages and various direct messaging from email to WhatsApp (which, while owned by FB does not on the surface have anything to do with FB).

For concerts, I use SongKick so I never miss one.

If I needed to integrate for someone (wouldn't do it for myself), I'd create a dummy account for testing.

If you're a social person I can see how it might be interesting for you. I, however, am not and I think that goes for the most of us here.

I do agree that some people have only their selves to blame. It's not all of then, though. In fact, I haven't been 100% truthful, I've had a FB account years ago, for very similar reasons as you.
It ended up being pretty much a way to keep in touch with a very specific community. Nothing I put there was "problematic" so I had no reason to hide it.
However, something happened to me in that very same circle, causing the media to "investigate" me and seeing that my FB was about pretty much that thing only they decided I was crazed with that and therefore a total scumbag who deserves to be hanged publicly.
No, it wasn't anything weird or something, it was just a normal aspect of a LOT of lives, the problem was that my FB was only about that aspect and the reason was because I had better alternatives for other aspects of my life.
Now, this is obviously a really edge case, but still. I've no interest in opening up a new account.

@AndSoWeCode @Artemix i didn't want to start a war here, just wanted to spread some info here just deactivating ain't complete removal of your data.
please stop getting triggered over a random rant/comment over the internet.

@Artemix
I agree with fb, though I am using Gmail/YouTube atm.
What is wrong with Google? Do they index email?
I'm illiterate on security.
What do you recommend as alternative for those services?
What os do you use on you're smartphone?
My PC runs Manjaro