Article 3JNH4 Facebook: is it time we all deleted our accounts?

Facebook: is it time we all deleted our accounts?

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Arwa Mahdawi
from Technology | The Guardian on (#3JNH4)

The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information

Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a "dumb fuck". This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway. Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact that 4,000 people had volunteered their personal information to his nascent social network. "People just submitted it ... I don't know why ... They 'trust me' ... dumb fucks."

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