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With #deleteFacebook trending across all social networks due to the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, we thought we’d take another look at when one of our writers decided to make the fateful move way back in 2010.<\/p>\nWith #deleteFacebook trending across all social networks due to the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, we thought we’d take another look at when one of our writers decided to make the fateful move way back in 2010.<\/p>\n
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Written by Tom Clark on August 19th, 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yesterday, I deleted my Facebook<\/a> profile. Assuming I don’t relent within the next two weeks, it will then disappear, entirely. Forever. Upon announcing these glad tidings to James (he sits next to me) and on Twitter, the general response I got was “Why would you do that?”.<\/p>\n It’s true, removing oneself from a network as huge and overarching as Facebook may at first look a little extreme. Perhaps even a tad sociopathic. But it needn’t be that way. Just because I’ve stopped using Facebook, that doesn’t mean I’m planning to relocate to the mountains and await the Mayan apocalypse in wide-eyed solitude.<\/p>\n There are plenty of reasons why deleting your Facebook profile might be a good idea. Here are five that convinced me:<\/p>\n It’s not like I was so hooked on Facebook that I never got anything else done. But Facebook is carefully designed so that it becomes practically the only website you ever use. And what that means is that sending a quick message to a friend via Facebook inevitably results in looking at photos of a colleague’s summer holiday or getting involved in some water-cooler style discussion about the political issue of the day. Facebook’s time consuming, distracting and doesn’t really add any value to my life. I’ll get more done without it.<\/p>\n Are you using productivity apps correctly?<\/p>\r\n Read about some common mistakes<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n My problem is that I can’t resist a good argument and it doesn’t take much provocation for me to stick my oar in. For various reasons, Facebook doesn’t engender a very high level of debate. Not the level you’ll find elsewhere, anyway, which makes it even more frustrating than arguing with trolls on my own blog. Rather than risk massive hypertension, I’ve opted for the best cure: prevention.<\/p>\n1. Getting Things Done<\/h2>\n
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