The techie website Gizmodo — you know, the highly ethical site that paid to buy the lost iPhone — has issues with Facebook.
After some reflection, I’ve decided to delete my account on Facebook. I’d like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I’d like my own social network to migrate away from Facebook so that I’m not missing anything. In any event, here’s my “Top Ten” reasons for why you should join me and many others and delete your account.
Here’s the 10 reasons. Follow the link above for background on each.
10. Facebook’s Terms Of Service are completely one-sided
9. Facebook’s CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior
8. Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy
7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch
6. Facebook is a bully
5. Even your private data is shared with applications
4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted
3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account
2. Facebook doesn’t (really) support the Open Web
1. The Facebook application itself sucks
As noted already today, Facebook has serious ethical issues that they continue to make worse. Again, that may not matter to you. I’m not even sure it matters to me. I mostly use Facebook to see what others are up to and include no personal information myself.
But the point is, bad companies should be boycotted, particularly when it’s easy to do so, at least until they clean up their act.
What do you think?
I quit FB and deleted my account (or at least I tried to.)