I quit Facebook and life, such as it was, went on. I quit because its business tactics were becoming ever so more UnFriend-like -- from experiments with the product of us, selling your browsing history, selling your facial profile to advertisers, tracking your TV-watching habits. Now they are listening to voices on your mobile device, and will soon opt into your health information, thus forcing more privacy Opt-Outs to protect information. The 14-day post-deletion period -- are you sure, are you really sure? -- came and quietly went. No one, myself included, noticed my disappearance that day. I did not request my archive of my seven years of posts, I did not write down a list of those I had 'friended' over the years, nor the businesses that I Liked. Without a glance back, I left all of those pictures of just-cooked or about-to-be-eaten meals and graduation pictures.
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