[akudha]

Last year, some idiot opened a bank account in my name. I was lucky to find out - I tried to get in touch with the bank. Zero human contact - the only way to communicate with them is via email. No phones, no chat, no in-person - nothing. Just email. Ultimately they closed the account (at least they claim they did). If this is the situation in a highly regulated (supposedly?) industry like banking, then how can we expect social media companies to fare any better?

I don't know what the solution is. I don't use social media (except HN, I don't know if it falls under social media category) and I don't feel the need to. It is super easy to not use Facebook, Twitter etc. But I have to use banks, insurance etc - there is no way to vote with wallet there, as almost every bank is as bad as the next one. I know of at least one college who post their class schedule, events etc only on Facebook, forcing their students to have a FB account. The level of stupidity...