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Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

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Re: Loved the article on the BBC

Put yourself in the average journo shoes. Facebook, for them, was a gifts from the gods. As soon as a crime or disaster happens, they raid the Facebook account of murderers and/or victims to get the defiant face of terrorists, the worrying one of a murderer, and the smiling victims, plus full bios! From your desk.

In the years BZ (Before Zuck), you had to work hard to get a bad mugshot, if lucky, and to get some info you had to annoy parents, relative, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, ask at the local religious site or bar, look in archives - hours and hours of work, maybe out in the rain and cold, driving around without Uber moreover...

It's no surprise the media chanted many "magnificat!" to Facebook for years, beyond what the money spent in PR by FB should have deserved. After all, every journo need to be a little nosy, why don't welcome the nosiest tools of all?

Now, they are in a dilemma.... tell people how much FB is dangerous, really, and renounce to such a trove of personal data, or pretend it's not that bad, after all?

I see already articles telling people not to leave Facebook, it's too difficult, it won't delete all of your data (so why add more? And that's also illegal), you have to activate new logins, and it's so cold there outside.... please, please, don't drain our source of your data!

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