{"id":399,"date":"2018-04-10T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=399"},"modified":"2023-04-25T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T05:56:51","slug":"leaving-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a 16-minute video clip today that made me want to leave Facebook. I am not going to make this a semi-religious quest and I don’t care what others do with their lives (though I’d prefer my wife to join me), but after finding out the true extent of what Facebook knows about me (everything beyond “the stuff I voluntarily share” is utterly shocking!) I am going to just remove my account.<\/p>\n

It is an addiction. It is something I am currently less able to function without. I throw away vast amounts of time on Facebook. Facebook, I have decided, is evil.<\/p>\n

To watch the video, go to https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ysa-SzNepsA<\/a><\/p>\n

I am going to delete my Facebook account tomorrow at 20:00 my time (UTC +1), and remove all Facebook integration from my sites before that. I am pretty sure I am going to regret it countless times afterwards, but fuck that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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