[mimixco]

No, sir. You are the product to be bought and sold on the free market and that's how they treat you. FB's software is free and therefore not the product. Your personal information is what's commercially valuable and therefore is the product. Google operates on the same model and you can quit that, too, if you'd like. If you don't, that's on you.

Don't ask government to save you from this when you can delete your FB account by yourself and get out of the game.

There isn't one personal or commercial benefit to FB or other social networks which has not already been solved by other technologies.

[dllthomas]

> You are the product [...]

> Your personal information [...] is the product.

I am not my personal information.

> you can delete your FB account by yourself and get out of the game.

Not really. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/29453/facebook-shadow-...

[mimixco]

So you still have an FB account because "it doesn't make any difference?" Is that you're argument?

[dllthomas]

I wasn't making any argument here about what anyone should or shouldn't do. I was simply pointing out that it's not the case that deleting your FB account gets you "out of the game" when it comes to being tracked. That's not the same thing as "it doesn't make any difference".

FWIW, I have a FB account, never initiate friend requests, log in rarely, post ~never. I make no claim that this is the "best" strategy by any particular metric.