Finally hit my limit with meta, removing it from my life
Instagram and Facebook just don’t feel fun anymore. Every click somehow turns into targeted ads, spam calls, or another reminder that my data is floating around everywhere So this week I started backing everything up. Photos, messages, old posts, everything. After that I’m deleting as much as I can from both platforms.
What really pushed me over the edge was checking data broker sites and seeing how much of my info is publicly floating around. Old numbers, addresses, emails, family info, all of it (highly suspect facebook being the culprit here). Been using a mix of tools to clean things up and regain some privacy. Exporting my data directly from Meta, switching a lot of accounts to aliases, and using Cloaked to start removing my info from broker sites because doing those opt outs manually is miserable.
Feel better already, never going back to it.