FWIW I have never had a Facebook nor Instagram account, but can only guess how much of a sacrifice it is to leave all those connections behind, especially for heavy users. But the fact these platform giants use our conversations and expressions as an implement of blackmail - threatening to delete it all - shows very clearly they are no better than a shitty landlord. It is an act of care for community and self to stop feeding such toxicity. Stop paying rent.
Worth mentioning that if I can get hold of a pair of Meta's new face recog RayBan glasses I will study them with the aim to detect and hopefully disable them at a distance.
I did the same for Google Glass (covered by Wired, Hackaday, Time) back in the day. I named it Glasshole.sh.
https://julianoliver.com/projects/glasshole/
The working title for my future Meta RayBan blocker is BanRay.sh
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