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Why are we quitting? For us it comes down to two things: fair choices and best intentions . In our view, Facebook doesn't do a good job in either department. Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren't fair choices , and while the onus is on the individual to manage these choices, Facebook makes it damn difficult for the average user to understand or manage this.
QuitFacebookDay.com
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed. Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. Even if you didn’t really want to keep up with them. Then Facebook decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — figuring, rightly, that there’s money and power in being the place where people define themselves.
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com
There is one question that I hear all the time. Is Facebook going to last, or is it just a fad? My answer is always the same.
Facebook is Dying - Social is Not (by @baekdal) #opinion
Facebook's Instant Personalization Is the Real Privacy Hairball: Tech News «
Facebook at its f8 conference yesterday launched tools for websites to add a social layer by bringing over Facebook friend connections. These social plugins are available to any web developer and use a simple piece of code to add a Facebook frame onto a page, instantly make that page social. So, for example, if you visit CNN.com, you could see what news stories your friends liked and shared there.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?' "And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information.