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Comment by asdf21 | Hacker News Reader

It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.

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The only facebook product I still use is oculus. I am rather curious what their software is doing. At a glance it seems innocent, but I’m not so naive to think anything facebook does is innocent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_...

That reddit thread was pretty disappointing. I was expecting some analysis of the contents of the network calls. It's also around four years old.

Since I have trouble believing Facebook isn't gathering telemetry from Oculus users, do you know of any more recent attempts to see what they're doing?

Social media platform is not an operating system. You can't just decide and switch. If you delete your account, you're missing out on updates from your friends who all are still there. Doing this you're only hurting yourself, not corporations.

It's unpopular amongst "hackers" to devalidate the use of FB products in this way.

For better or worse, that's apparent from this.

I think the unpopular opinion here is "I don't find value, thus there is no value." When, in reality, many people do find a value. Somewhere.

Heck, I post maybe once a year on Facebook. It's how my in-laws communicate, so that's where I have to go if I want to interact with that part of my social graph. It has a value (however small), even if I wished it didn't.

I see what you're saying, but given how addictive FB is, and how much advertisement they use, you're kind of giving them the upper hand by playing neutral.

For instance, I never go to Walmart (but sometimes do). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc

Your personal experience is not universal.

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