Feel like breaking up with Facebook? Maybe it’s time for a social media spring clean
IN denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks it can intimidate governments. DAVID TUFFLEY, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University If it keeps doing this, it will ultimately lose customers, and that’s the last thing Facebook wants. Perhaps you’re already considering breaking up with Facebook, whether in reaction to the news ban, or out of a broader unease about its business model, which profiles its users with the goal of earning revenue from targeted advertising. If so, the good news is it’s definitely possible…