Facebook Users Stage Mass Exodus, #DeleteFacebook Is Trending

Facebook has been embroiled in scandal after scandal over the better part of two years, following its controversial role in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. It seems users have finally had enough of the social network’s shenanigans and now, many have decided to show Mark Zuckerberg how displeased they are. The hashtag #deletefacebook has been trending recently and users are quitting the site en masse.

The last straw for Facebook users was the revelation that the personal information of over 50 million users was sold by the social network, which likely skewed the results of the last election in favor of Donald Trump. It seems it also affected the “Brexit” referendum, Business Insider reports, the results of which have now thrown the UK into chaos.

In the wake of such a scandalous development, it’s no wonder that people are now deleting their Facebook accounts by the thousands. Publications have also started piling on by providing readers with instructions on how they can do the same thing and providing an explanation of how deletion differs from simply deactivating their accounts.

Basically, deactivating a Facebook account provides users with the ability to come back any time they wanted if they ever changed their minds. When an account is deleted, however, the effect is permanent and that is what users are doing in droves.

Then there are pieces like those published on TechCrunch, which are absolutely lambasting Facebook for still attempting to sell a lie to its users. The social network is not the human community that Zuckerberg often tries to portray it as. It’s a giant hub where the personal information of users is collected and sold to the highest bidder so that the buyers would then sell products to those same users.

At this point, maintaining a Facebook account seems to pose more of a danger to the users than not having one. Convenience shouldn’t come at the cost of people losing control of their own lives.