Steve “The Woz” Wozniak Joins #DeleteFacebook Movement, All Hail “The Woz!”

Apple Inc. co-founder and general nerd icon Steve “The Woz” Wozniak has recently revealed that he had dropped Facebook and has now abandoned his account. The legendary tech figure is one of the latest in Silicon Valley to turn their backs on Mark Zuckerberg and the Frankenstein’s Monster of a company he built, which has since been involved in more privacy scandals than it has loyalists remaining.

As Ars Technica notes, The Woz might not be involved that much in the operations of Apple these days, but he remains one of the most celebrated figures in the tech industry. He also has a fairly active social media presence, which makes any move he makes in this sphere rather momentous.

This is why his recent interview with USA Today, which was conducted via email exchange is such a blow to Facebook, especially now that its reputation is basically in tatters. Wozniak has officially declared that he was no longer a user of the social network.

"Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and ... Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this," his email reads. "The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.”

Wozniak also added a comparison between Apple and the social media giant, putting special emphasis on how the two companies conduct business.

"Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you," Wozniak’s email reads. "As they say, with Facebook, you are the product."

An interesting detail to Wozniak’s decision was the fact that he initially only wanted to change his privacy settings so that he wouldn’t become a victim of something like the Cambridge Analytica scandal. However, he found that Facebook made it unnecessarily difficult to do so, which finally convinced him that it just wasn’t worth sticking around.