worst case scenario

but had to sell the private info for more money. Many lessons to be learned here, one of which will be FB gone. I'll miss my games and interacting with old school chums and the day to day stuff with my son. Sad.

0.50% quarter-to-quarter increase or they declare the stock "mature," a kiss of death. I know of a software company that laid off its most mature and productive engineers, leaving their customers in the lurch, for these increases. MBAs who don't understand the business running a tech firm.

Somehow there is never enough, the definition of greed.

Was there another guy that co-founded Facebook and when it went public he renounced his citizenship and moved to China to avoid taxes?
on edit yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin

and deleted my Facebook account recently. It’s been surpisingly easy to get along without it.

Welcome to DU!!

Hope that it creates a bit of a problem for them.

This lawsuit isn't about that, but there is lots of hurt to go around.
They were notified to stop enabling and they just denied everything.

Let Facebook die. It's a menace and this issue with it has been a feature not a bug from the start. It's how they were able to become so popular by not using ads for so long. Hopefully a better social network will be developed or Twitter changes it's business model so as to survive the first round of regulations.

When all this BS started with them using an ad blocker while on Facebook made the site unbearably slow to use. That went on for months to the point I just stopped using it. I'll be damned if I am pulling my blocker down

However, I checked again a couple months ago and it seems to be working fine with the blocker on. Not sure if adblock found a work around or what?!

I only use it sparingly to like things and to keep up with people I can't contact normally. I've noticed ads on every third or fourth post. I think they need to increase revenues as much as possible now that they expect these lawsuits to take a bite out of their operating profits.

A bunch more will sue as well.

Social media site is LinkedIn. A couple years ago when I was considering changing jobs, I joined and paid the subscription for premium benefits. I was shocked I could see who looked at my profile. NEVER stalk someone on LinkedIn!!

every month. In a free account, you can see who a couple of them are, but not the rest. Premium member identities are never divulged in checking out profiles.

I don't regard LinkedIn that big a deal because the purpose of LinkedIn is precisely FOR people to see you, who you are, your background & education...to further your career or get a job. So LinkedIn people want people to look at their accounts, usually.

Google, OTOH, (if you have a Google account) follows you wherever you go on the internet. It connects all the dots. If yu post anonymously to an article online, Google knows that and links it w/your Google account.

I pay bills electronically. Unbeknownst to me, Google kept all my credit card information in some sort of special account services location, without notifying me. I only found out when it started verifying my credit card every time I paid a bill, and would charge $1 (the $1 was just to verify, and was removed upon verification). Yikes! I found out where that "services" page was and opted out. But I still see messages from Google when I pay online, so I'm sure it's keeping that information somewhere. It's scary and invasive.

I may check into switching to Foxfire, but I don't have time to make a big change right now. And Chrome works so well otherwise.

Mark Fuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are greedy, unAmerican frauds. They are fake Dems, fake Jews and she is full of BS with her Lean In crap. Their behavior is as criminal as the heads of Big Pharm and oil companies, no difference. I am so glad I never used Fakebook or Instaspam.

N/t

Eff'em.

but I haven't used it for ages. My family sends me their FB comments on occasion, and I look at those, but otherwise I don't use it.

FB is pure evil.

But just yesterday when working on my family tree on Ancestry.com, I was waiting for the page to refresh and I noticed in the bottom left corner of my screen a message that said “sending message to Facebook.com”. I took a photo and sent it to Ancestry with a WTF letter.

Hopefully he'll have a lot less of it after this suit!