Why I'm quitting Facebook

CNN ^ | 02/25/2013 | Douglas Rushkoff, CNN

[bigheadfred]

I just post on my wife’s FB. As my wife of course.

[svcw]

You appear to assume that my security has anything to do with known personal information on FaceBook. My personal information is very limited on FB, they do offer multiple privacy settings, which I use.
Not sure why anyone would not use those.
I do not have two accounts with the same security question, sign in name or password.
However, I guess I can see some people might be repetitive.
Oh, well, I guess some people are just really paranoid

[murron]

That’s what I like about it. I can keep in touch with friends and relatives that I would not normally have access to, including one cousin who lives in New Zealand. Actually, my sister doesn’t like FB, having never tried it. She had a stack of pictures she was showing to me one day, and she said that she had to make the rounds of relatives to show these pictures to. I suggested to her that she become a member of FB, and that’s when she put her nose in the air and said that she doesn’t do FB. Her loss.

[upchuck]

Large grin. Thanks.

[editor-surveyor]

Most of the ID theft convicts got their clues from facebook.

EBay comes in high too.

[svcw]

I suppose that is true.
Mine are all so complicated, I’d have to them credit for the hack.
I don’t do EBay, I think the site is difficult and to many people get scammed.
oh well

[catnipman]

“Would it be a good approximation to say that more than half of the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are fake?”

LOL! I never thought about it that way. But probably not, because most of the idiots, children and idiot children (that is, your standard Facebook marks) aren’t smart enough to think about the virtues of a fake account.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It’s like the Mob - you can never leave.

"Just when I thought I was out...they pulled me back in!"