Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BetaNews: A survey conducted in the wake of the #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed revelations about the data breach and the logging of Android users' calls and texts, found that a surprising number of tech workers were ready to delete their Facebook accounts. 31 percent backed the #DeleteFacebook campaign, including 50 percent of Microsoft workers, and 38 percent of Google workers. The survey -- conducted using the anonymous app Blind -- found that nearly a third of those questioned were planning to delete their Facebook accounts. In all, over 2,600 people were surveyed between March 20, 2018 and March 24, 2018, so it neatly took in the peak of the controversy. Broken down by company, the numbers make for interesting reading:

-50 percent of Microsoft employees said they will delete Facebook.
-46 percent of Snapchat employees said they would delete Facebook.
-40 percent of Uber employees said they would delete Facebook.
-38 percent of Google employees said they would delete Facebook.
-34 percent of Amazon employees said they would delete Facebook.
-2 percent of Facebook employees said they would delete Facebook.

Comments

Re:If you work in tech

[jfdavis668]

I downloaded what they have on me. Nothing I didn't post there in the first place. I know enough about tech to stop them from getting anything else.

You insenstive clod!

[PPH]

How can I delete something I never had?

Re:"Ready too"

[PPH]

people who are going to start going to the gym

Same people by the looks of them.

Re: If you work in tech

[Anonymous Coward]

Where do you work that facebook friends counts as proof of social aptitude, a prison library?

Holier than thou

[radarskiy]

Deleting your facebook account is easy for people with no friends.

I've tried

[burtosis]

I tried to delete Facebook, but I'm having trouble hacking in and remote wiping the whole deal. Any ideas?

Re:Frogs on a log.

[Subm]

> 31% are ready to do it. But that 31% hasn't yet. What is holding them back?

They're procrastinating on Slashdot.

Re:If you work in tech

[Anonymous Coward]

You know that even if you don't have a profile on FB they still have a dark profile on you, from a combination of friends uploading their contacts

I don't have any friends.

Checkmate, Facebook.

Re: If you work in tech

[dgatwood]

I'd be less likely to hire someone who would be less likely to hire someone who had a Facebook account, because it implies that:

• When friends move away, you never bother to keep in touch with them.
• You were so cliquish in high school that you never want to hear from anybody back there ever again.
• You were equally cliquish in college.
• You still didn't learn to get along, and now hate everyone at every previous employer.
• You only keep people around when those people help you, and as soon as you no longer need them, you throw them away.
• You tend to make broad, sweeping assumptions based on the assumption that everyone must think the way you do, or else they must be stupid.

In short, it is a strong indication that you're precisely the opposite of the sort of person that I would want to work with. In fact, in a bit of dramatic irony, your post exhibits some of the classic symptoms of the very narcissism you're claiming that all Facebook users exhibit. Hilarious.

I put pretty much the entire "Delete Facebook" noise into the same mental bucket as your post. Facebook only gets what you and others give them. Don't want them to have information? Say less and click less frequently. Deleting Facebook won't keep other people from saying things about you, though it will prevent you from correcting hurtful untruths. Either way, on the whole, the only thing you can really control is what you do or say on Facebook, which means the best thing to do is to keep Facebook, but use it less.