Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash A few months ago I closed my Facebook account. After accidentally returning to Facebook, what I found was shocking. Here is how it all happened and what I found. When I closed my Facebook account, I chose to keep Messenger active in order to be able to stay in touch with a... Continue Reading →
Say No To Facebook Libra
After being a tool to break hour privacy and democracy, Facebook is looking to help break the banking system. Libra is a solution in search of a problem (except maybe in the US with its archaic banking system). What if other governments don’t like what Libra does to their local currency, perhaps by undermining financial... Continue Reading →
Facebook and privacy, really? A few words: don't believe the hype.
While Apple Is Protecting Our Privacy, Facebook Is Selling Our Data
Some controversy this week because Apple is accused of anti-competitive measures. Apple decided to remove non compliant applications from the App Store which were depending on MDM to implement screen time like features. Something that is seen as Apple using his dominant position with its App Store. Well, that's a way to put it. But... Continue Reading →
Resolving a Big Dilemma
To manage a Facebook page, we now need an account I’ve been blogging for quite a while here and there but now this blog is where I put all my efforts. So far, it seems to be working. Each month I’m doing better than the one before as far as visitors count, bounce rate (very... Continue Reading →
Don’t Trust Facebook I Said
Another day, another bad news coming from Facebook: "Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years". Facebook is probing a series of security failures in which employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers. They sell your... Continue Reading →
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Discovers Privacy – Don’t Be Fools
There is something fundamentally flawed about Facebook talking about privacy. This is against their business models. Don't be fools. I'll drop a link here about how we shouldn't believe them.
Quitting Facebook To Build Bokeh
Here is an interesting project, Bokeh, a photo sharing social network. I already like the name. Think of it has an Instagram with no ads. Why now? Because a guy decided that he had enough of Facebook for pretty much the same reasons that I had too. Same goes for Instagram. So he wants to... Continue Reading →
La vie après Facebook (French)
En janvier dernier je fermais mon compte Facebook définitivement. Dans cet épisode, j’expose comment ça se passe ma vie sans Facebook. Lisez ma lettre de départ de Facebook publiée quelques jours avant de fermer mon compte: https://numericcitizen.me/2019/01/12/my-final-post-on-facebook/ Merci d’avoir écouté ce podcast. Visitez mon blogue @ http://numericcitizen.me pour en savoir davantage sur mes opinions de... Continue Reading →