Steve Wozniak is officially done with Facebook.
On a March episode of the “Steve-O’s Wild Ride!” podcast, hosted by entertainer Steve-O, Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns. When he “likes” a friend’s post, the interaction isn’t about connecting with someone he knows, the Apple co-founder said – it’s about revealing his interests to advertisers.
That’s enough to keep him off the platform for the foreseeable future, he said, noting that he’s “scared a bit” about the amount of access Facebook had to his life: “Of all Big Tech, Facebook is probably No. 1 that I don’t like.”
Wozniak seems to have been aware of Facebook’s privacy standards for some time, but the tipping point that led him to deactivate his account wasn’t sparked by personalized ads on his feed. Instead, it came from months of habitual, mindless scrolling on social media.
Yes, I was also officially done with Facebook products at beginning 2020 when the straw broke the camel’s back. So there went my FB, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts, as well as my planned purchase of an Oculus Rift headset. For me, it was the metadata being extracted from WhatsApp actually, as I had already deleted my FB account before that.
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