After accusations that Facebook has broken its users' data, users have lost faith in the virtual world and have been skeptical. In contrast, we can control how we handle this social platform by ensuring that we use a secure search engine.
In a report published in The Washington Post, writer Abe Olhizer said the paper had interviewed people who tried to quit Facebook several months ago, many of whom said the move was not easy.
She pointed out that Facebook can be an effective way to share bad news with people, while some can search for good jobs or products.
So if you're very attached to your Facebook account, here are some ideas to help you ease this attachment:
1 - Facebook Block
If you can not delete your Facebook account, there are some tricks that may help you prevent Facebook from tracking your activity online.
Resetting Facebook's privacy systems helps prevent outsiders from viewing your private data.
These systems will work every time you try to "sign in to Facebook" from a different device.
Deleting the Facebook app and related applications from your phone (including Messenger, Instagram and WebSAP) and browsing Facebook on your computer will limit the tracking of this site to the information on your phone.
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2 - Log out every time
Bryan Feldman of The New York Mag said simply logging out of a Facebook account without deleting it can help create some change.
The main idea is that instead of signing in and keeping your Facebook account open on your phone, you have to control the choice of your visit by logging out each time and setting a specific time to enter.
Feldman said he found out how unimportant this service was in his life. He said that if one day he needed to sign in to look for some information, he would leave immediately after getting what he wanted.
In addition to recognizing that individuals are indispensable to Facebook, log-in and out can help each time stop the ability of this site to access users' personal data.
3. Utilities
The Demetricator application for Bingmin Grosser can help the user get rid of his obsession by browsing his Facebook page by hiding all the numbers of admiration and showing content only.
Grosser believes these numbers are what makes people connected to Facebook, and the solution is to hide them and focus only on content.
In September, Grosser introduced a more sophisticated experience called SafeBook, an application that helps hide all the text and images on your homepage from the search engine.
There are also some other ways you can control Facebook by preventing it from constantly sending content notifications.
Byron Tao, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, recommended installing Chrome, such as Newsfeed Email and Facebook Block, the first hiding the entire news page from you, while the second obscures any links linked to Facebook.