Ali,

Facebook was built for and is meant for *sharing*! With time, I have seen FB make us want to share more and more, recommend to us 'friends' at every turn and inevitably there will be a clash between the sharing and our privacy!

Also, there was a time our Newsfeeds were very clean, you'd actually get to know what your friends were upto, but I do find its now looking unrecognizable; its become this very noisy marketplace! Or maybe I am gettitng old :-)

Privacy unfortunately plays 2nd fiddle to sharing. For me, the straw that broke the proverbial camels back is seeing photos that I had taken on my phone already auto-uploaded and semi-shared in my timeline, and with an absent minded click, I would have shared all on the my timeline!

I got the app off my phone immediately, but kept the web desktop as I do continue to use it once in a while.

I have also seen that FB has been collecting all our Phone records, calls + SMS as written about on Verge...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/ 3/25/17160944/facebook-call- history-sms-data-collection- android

So, I guess if you're still using FB on Android, you gotta be 'strong'!

P.S

Does FB and other Apps synchronize their data policies with those of the users home country?

Regards

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote:

Listers

Hope you all had a great weekend. Here’s an interesting article on the ongoing Facebook fallout.

Excerpt:-

I spent the evening with a friend who is far bolder than me. Having deactivated his Facebook profile three years ago, he upped the ante this week by deleting his Instagram account. Even more drastically, he plans officially to delete his long-dormant Facebook account—the last vestige of his serfhood in Mr. Zuckerberg’s fiefdom—sometime very soon, after his girlfriend has had an opportunity to port its photos elsewhere. (He prefers offline storage.)

Read on:-

https://view.email.fortune.com /?qs=55840ef3733ec70e7bbf70681 a1fdf4ef688af63cc3bc7eef1a6466 871482204b1da0994a47ddc4eb36e5 5eca2c6a6c64c45c7cb49127419dc5 77951543699845cefb5000f8f8cbb

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