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Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system, loosen content moderation policies, and roll back previous limits to the amount of political content in user feeds.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    As someone that deleted it 5 or so years back, after a while you won’t miss Facebook anymore. And I used to be on that shit along with Reddit daily for hours on end. Now I don’t use either and you’d be surprised how much better it is when you get used to it. Sure I’m on here a lot but it’s not even close to how much time I wasted before.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Everyone worries about the lack of content on lemmy, but I have 3 part time jobs and can’t surf all day even though I would absolutely love to stay in the basement until I passed away from some preventable illness.

  • Kaput@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I knew I wouldn’t be the only one. Now I just have to hold off checking it for 30 days.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That was when the spell broke for me, too. Both times, actually. I got off of it in 2018 or so, and it took about 30 days. Then I had a relapse, and just cut it off on election day. I stopped trying to return to it in early December.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That is straight up drug addict speak. I hope that you find someone that helps in that direction. Because seriously that is drug addict mentality, and I say that as an addict.

      Just keep walking away from it. The sky is still blue, the stars will still dance. And people will still wish you a happy birthday. I promise.

    • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Change your DNS on your router to one you can block FB with. Free ones like Opendns or adguard should do the trick. For mobile it’s a bit more tricky since you can’t just change your mobile DNS without a VPN but you could get one for that too.

      • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You can change your DNS on iPhone at least. Settings > Wi-Fi > ℹ️ > Configure DNS > Manual

        Add these servers: 94.140.14.14 94.140.15.15

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, Meta doesn’t exactly make it an easy clear-cut process. To this day my account is probably still only “deactivated” but since I don’t trust them to delete my data anyway I haven’t bothered going back to confirm and “delete”. And I don’t suppose the process has gotten simpler since then.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
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        2 years ago

        They already have all the data you’ve already given them. Just stop going there.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I nuked my account after Cambridge Analytica.

      I assumed this would be the obvious, en masse response to learning, definitively, that FB is absolutely using its algorithms and data to intentionally manipulate society in general.

      Nope!

      A decade ish later and here we are, society ripping itself apart with neuroses and hatred, apparently just apparently not realizing that the algorithm optimizes toward outrage, that this makes everyone emotionally unstable and believe insane mis and disinfo.

      Great work Zuck! Speedrun of destroying the underlying social fabric that allows a functioning democracy to be possible.

      Onward to oblivion.