Delete Your Account!
Some personal and professional thoughts on the recent Facebook changes from a privacy by design perspective with a focus on the incredibly difficult experience of attempting to delete your account
I’ve remained on Facebook for a long time despite having reservations about using the platform because I have so many friends and family there with whom it’s hard to communicate over a great distance otherwise. However, the recent changes Mark Zuckerberg has implemented will make this platform more toxic than ever before, enabling some of the worst actors to harass some of the most at-risk people there. Additionally, after spending almost a quarter century in the design world, I would not want to work for a company, which does not put an emphasis upon diversity and inclusion as it inevitably leads to poor and even dangerous design decisions. So I’m currently planning to use Facebook even less frequently and also hope that some sort of replacement site comes along in the near future.
It’s Not So Simple to “Delete Your Account”
Related, I’m currently working on a book on the topic of privacy and many of the issues I’ve had with this site tie into that. One privacy issue many big platforms like Facebook suffer from is not allowing you to…
