Finally moved all my Facebook Saved Links out to Pocket and dumped them from Facebook. Went from 600 pages liked to 300, although I think there are items on that list that Facebook is no longer revealing, and I suspect it is a bid to prevent people from using automated tapeworms to delete their Facebook account via hollowing. Leave the account in place, but dump all the guts out.

I don’t care to encourage people to do anything. The more I see how much Facebook knows about me, the more shocked I feel. That they have monetized me was always a part of the deal, but the Cambridge Analytica scandal points to a deeper corruption that runs along with the platforms inability to admit error and only responds when caught red-handed. If they have been corrupt all along, how far does the corruption go? How much have they sold us all for profits? Who has the data that describes us so well?

In many ways, #DeleteFacebook is a matter of bonum ira. It’s a good sort of anger that helps clean up a mess that we all have made of things. Facebook demands punishing, in a manner of speaking and retraction of personal data is probably the only rational way to achieve this sort of effort.

I don’t want to delete Facebook as much as starve it of data.