cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25911857
I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck’s shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I saw where FB was going in like … 2009? I had always recognized the value of the Internet as being anonymity. You had to survive on what you could convince people of, what you could argue.
Facebook broke anonymity, and as soon it dawned on me, I left.
I remember those times. Facebook was pushing really hard for people to share their IDs with it, under the claim that it was to curb down fake accounts.