[clef]

He doesn't own my ass, I don't have a Facebook/Instagram/whatsapp/(whatever Facebook owns or will own) account and never will. I'll never need to, just as people never needed to 10 years ago, Nor will I ever have any oculus rift thingy on my head. So there, he doesn't own my ass! And when Facebook starts buying people's asses for 10 billion bucks, I still won't sell mine :)

Edit: and if one day Facebook owns the internet, then I'll buy a farm, grow veggies and get off the "grid". I'll become a "nature growth hacker" ( remember you saw it here first!).

[digitalengineer]

Ever heard of Dark Profiles? Sorry to say this but Facebook does own your ass. http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-developed-s...

[clef]

Oh well, then that means I have this alter ego having a life of his own. Imagine this, after 40 years of having a Facebook account, my shadow account gets his numbers and shadow personality "woken up" into an AI system ( for the Brits, there's a kick ass episode of "black mirror" that illustrates this), I wonder how different my shadow me would be :) Imagine after the human race ends, some aliens resuscitate "us" by using the principle above from deep buried Facebook archives... How much more bullshit would this artificial human race be made of compared to what there is already :)

[bigbugbag]

From the methods facebook used, I assumed those existed long before they've surfaced to the public so I blocked all thing facebook from my network early on, like buttons and facebook login never had the opportunity to track me as they're filtered out by my firewall.

I started following this trend of blocking unwanted stuff with ads coming to the web (at the time it meant saving bandwidth, money and time) and got serious about it when google stopped being a search engine to an ad agency. I went in full on when google started its surveillance of what everybody was doing on the web outside google (buying urchin and turning it into google analytics).

See this whole thing started with ads which quickly required tools to monitor people interactions with them and it's all been downhill from there.

[enscr]

No, creating dark profiles does not mean it'll suck data out of your device. It just means it'll gather existing data from web/pics etc.

[digitalengineer]

And from your friends address book, SMS/chat/whatsapp...

[croggle]

It's easy to get sucked in for someone people. I moved to the other side of the world recently. These FB owned services allow communication and sharing between my friend, family and wife's family very easy. It makes us all feel less distant.

I understand the downsides though.