Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quit Facebook — why it’s not so easy for others to leave
In an interview posted Sunday on Yahoo News’ Skullduggery podcast, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democratic Congresswoman, said she’s given up posting on Facebook FB, +0.28% calling it a “public health risk,” and said she is also cutting back on her use of Twitter TWTR, -0.03% and Instagram, where she has 3.94 million followers and 3.2 million followers, respectively. Her official Facebook page has more than 738,300 followers.
In April 2018, Facebook said that 2 billion users likely have had their public profile information scraped by outsiders without their explicit permission. It also said that information from the profiles of up to 87 million people had their data “improperly shared” by Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political consulting firm that closed operations in May 2018. Facebook refrained from calling it a data breach and, instead, said Cambridge Analytica abused Facebook’s terms of service.
Sure, people use Facebook to network and log into their Tinder IAC, -0.17% account. Those left behind often take it personally, and may even have formed a co-dependent relationship with their Facebook friends, said Simon Rego, chief psychologist and Montefiore Medical Center in New York. People either send messages asking, “What’s wrong?” or, even worse, “What have I done?”
Deactivating attracts a lot of attention, albeit negative Many people temporarily deactivate their profile — so their data remains online — rather than delete it, Walfish said. Aside from the time associated with downloading and storing photographs, deactivation seems less harsh. “Deactivating also attracts a lot of attention, albeit negative,” she said. And for those who want to make a public statement, that attention is not exactly unwelcome.
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