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

If you work in tech

[nehumanuscrede]

and you haven't deleted Facebook already, you're behind the curve I'm afraid.

You KNOW what they're doing. Why are you still there ?

Re:If you work in tech

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh please. I knew what they were doing when I joined. It's a trade off. Get over yourself.

Re:If you work in tech

[Anonymous Coward]

I downloaded what they have on me. Nothing I didn't post there in the first place.

And you trust that? Facebook decided what was available to "download", remember? Did you have unlimited query access to their data stores? How can you know what they have or don't have on you, short of an independent forensic audit?

I know enough about tech to stop them from getting anything else.

Did you know that your profile on Facebook and the data associated with it consists of more than simply what you gave them first hand? How can you work in tech and not have at least an inkling of that? Ever heard of data brokering? Yeah, it's a whole industry that knows just about everything about you despite the fact that you probably mostly never gave them any of it first hand. Please tell us you're not this naive.

Re:If you work in tech

[Excelcia]

And look at the wording "...would delete facebook...". Who is going to go through the trouble? What will really happen is they will stay off it for a few weeks, Facebook will ramp up their "we miss you" emails. You know, the ones like "So and so has messaged you ten times and you haven't responded. Click here to see their messages", and "Hey look at the ten single girls who would probably respond to a friend request, click here to see them". After a few of those they'll go back on and it will be business as usual.

I will be more impressed when I see "nearly a third of tech workers HAVE deleted Facebook". Then I'll think the movement is working.

Re: If you work in tech

[TheGratefulNet]

I've been quite desparate for jobs in the past (I'm over 50...) - but I'd never create a fb account JUST to 'show them' ... ANYTHING.

any job that you would not get BECAUSE of a lack of fb is no job worth having. and I'm saying that as someone who has been nearly broke from unemployment more times than I care to count.

I think you are lying to yourself, though. no job insists on having fb next to your name. you assume too much.

Re:If you work in tech

[msauve]

"...would..."

The article is BS. Do. Or do not. There is no try.

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, the obvious recently released info about the call and messaging details, and then all the tracking they do throughout the web. There's really no way around it, unless you're a total social recluse they probably have some info on you.

At least having a profile setup on facebook you don't have to worry about someone else signing up as you and can control / lock down some of the privacy settings.

Re: If you work in tech

[Anonymous Coward]

Your list of implications is absolutely insane and I pity the people who have to work with you.

My shocked face

[Anonymous Coward]

30% of #FACEBOOKCOMPETITOR employees say they would delete Facebook. [Until their boss leaves and they whisper 'no I wouldn't ever.']

But will they do it?

[quonset]

Saying you'll delete your Facebook account is one thing. Doing it is another. Especially in the tech industry where if you're not on at least half a dozen anti-social media sites, people will think there's something wrong with you.

Until these people actually delete their accounts, it's all talk.

Frogs on a log.

[Mistlefoot]

There is an old proverb:
There are 5 frogs on a log.
2 of them decide to jump into the water.
How many frogs remain on the log?

The answer is 5. As deciding to do something is not the same as doing something.

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

Re:Frogs on a log.

[mark-t]

More likely what is holding them back is the lack of any widely used alternative that does everything that people would have expected from Facebook without having to use multiple services.

"Ready too"

[kamapuaa]

You either delete it or you don't. This is like people who are going to start going to the gym "next week."

Google

[stooo]

Next thing : Delete Google.