[boldpanda]

Instead of complaining about Facebook and their ads, use it as a competitive advantage in your life. And by use it, I mean don't use it.

Just as gambling is a tax on the ignorant, Facebook is a tax on the bored and undisciplined.

If you can use Facebook even half as much as the average person, you'll have a huge productivity and happiness advantage.

[fidotron]

The true genius of Facebook is it's practically impossible to not use it, even if you're not signed up. If anyone mentions you, or happens to post a picture with you in you're in it.

The same applies for Google, where if you happen to be in the background of a photo which isn't shared but gets uploaded to G+ quietly as a backup of an Android phone (which they do by default) then Google (and by extension the US gov) know where you were, as per their demo at I/O about 3 years ago.

[boldpanda]

I must be getting downvoted by Facebook employees.

[than]

Oh man. That second sentence.