Hi All, I made a pledge that by New Years Eve / New Years Day Midnight 2015-2016 I would completely get rid of FaceBook.
I did. (well at least from my end, since its unknown if facebook will ever actually get rid of my data) I gave 6 months Notice to all my "friends". It actually gave me a great Idea of who my Real Friends are. Those who wanted to stay in contact with me actually contacted me. Email and Signal are the main methods that we all communicate now other than in person. It's not difficult once you have gone without Face Book for a few months because it really free's up your Time as well as boosting your Freedom and Privacy. I don't have to be bugged with corporate or political propaganda which would some how make it into my feed, and I know longer have to worry about my posts being censored. You can live without FaceBook! Go out with people, write them an Encrypted message with Signal. I even have taught a few of my former FaceBook "friends" to use GPG and now communicate with them using that. Before you say GPG is too hard, it's not. I did have to spend about 1/2 an hour with a few people to get them using it, and they actually use it now. Here are my tips. 1. Give your friends plenty of notice on FaceBook that you will be leaving soon (NO more than 6 Months). i) Make sure you repeat the message several times to make sure that your message has been seen. ii) if you are still unsure if people have seen your message, contact them via instant message, letting them know you are leaving facebook 2. Ask to meet in person (good if you can) to exchange contact details like EMAIL, PHONE NUMBERS, MOBILE NUMBERS, ADDRESSES. 3. Get them to download SIGNAL and teach them how to use it. If they won't take your privacy seriously, they are not really your friends. (It's not worth keeping in touch at all if, they won't bother to communicate in a reasonably, easy, secure way like using SIGNAL) 4. It is not difficult to setup an email address if they don't already have one. There are so many to choose from. (If they don't already have one, ask them to avoid all the SIGINT enabled ones like GMAIL, ICLOUD, OUTLOOK or YAHOO etc.) 5. Give a lesson in EMAIL SELF DEFENCE with GPG Here is a guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ When MSN was popular people thought they wouldn't be able to live without it, turns out everybody can. It is the exact same with FaceBook, You can get rid of it. Hope this helps! Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <[email protected]> Organiser of The Free Software Movement in Sydney www.freesoftware.org.au/ GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.
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