Q: The more I discover about Facebook the less I like it – from fake news, to pervasive user-tracking, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and targeting dodgy ads at me, it seems like it is finding ways to make money out of keeping tabs on everything that my friends or I do online. I’ve tried setting up accounts on different social-media platforms like Mastodon and Diaspora, but no matter how much I nag my friends and family or make the case for privacy they just won’t leave Facebook (or Instagram or Whatsapp, which Facebook also owns). It’s like they’ve got a bad case of tech-giant Stockholm syndrome. Should I delete my Facebook account and risk losing touch with everyone or should I just accept my lot as a data point in a dystopian surveillance capitalist future?
Mark, California
