Strike Three

I see the mess with Facebook giving data to their “partners” with Partnership Agreements that are supposed to make it alright to give our data and data about our friends to third parties - not us and not Facebook - as fraud against me and my friends.  Facebook has maintained all along that it had “user acceptance’ for the data it was transferring around, when that was hard to believe.  Now we know for sure that it had other types of agreements with companies overseas and domestic that allowed that sharing.  Facebook still has not been hit in the pocketbook by any of this horse trading of data.  For me, this was it.  In American baseball, you get three strikes and you are out, and for Facebook, this is it.  I may be the only only one dumping them over this but I lived long enough with the fake promises and sincere jesters at Facebook who seem to be willing to wave away objections with the “Facebook Experience”.  The Facebook experience, as it turns out was them selling data to almost anyone who wanted it, for almost any reason, while they held out the idea that we were approving that data sharing by our overt consent.  Partnerships have nothing to do with my consent.  Dropping out of Facebook is my only recourse to this kind of action by them.  I hope more people do it, but this time I don’t really care about what others do.