@Frederick:
@dist:
It's a free service. You don't like it? Get out. People seem to forget they are grown and should take responsibility for their own decisions. If you make your life public online and want to be a part of that community, you need to deal with the good and the bad. I deleted mine years ago. Not because of whatever agenda people think they may have. I just was fed up with idiotic selfies and generic food pics.
It is NOT a free service… it is ad generated.. and they also sell your information to whomever will pay for it, such as the government, marketers, or investigators. Have you never noticed that often when you purchase something, you mysteriously are inundated with ads related to that purchase? That is because mega companies such as Facebook are allowed to collect your "cookies" AND used them! This issue arose in the USA a couple of weeks ago. Only a very few companies are allowed to actually sell your information.. and Facebook is one of them.
Facebook is what it is.
If you don't like it don't use it; it is as simple as that.
It's the same concept for products, movies, TV shows, etc.; if you don't like it nor want to support it, then don't.
BTW, it is not only Facebook that sells your information.
Google collects massive amounts of information on each and every user, whether you're using Chrome of Google search or other Aps.
If you get points at your grocery store then you too are being tracked and sold.
Here is the page to look at and edit your FaceBook information
www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/
You can clean it out but remember every Like puts more information into this file.
As for Google search you can use another search engine like DuckDuckGo that doesn't collect nor sell your information (Ok DuckDuckGo doesn't show you 15,000,000 sites for what you're looking for but you can find what you're looking for.)
Go here to help get rid of targeted ads in your browser, it's like a do not call list.
http://optout.aboutads.info/#/
Just remember, nothing is free, someone needs to pay for the services and that usually is the user.