ESCAPING THE FACEBOOK BUBBLE
Jul 01, 2018
4 minutes
By Corey Levitan
SHUTTERSTOCK
Following revelations that Facebook sold private data to third-party app developers earlier this year, #deletefacebook became a thing and, for the first time ever, more daily U.S. users were quitting than joining. I found this amusing, since I had quit over a year ago. I didn’t quit because I objected to Mark Zuckerberg’s siphoning off personal data. That didn’t surprise me in the least. How else did people think Facebook became a $500 billion company? I quit for entirely personal reasons.
I had become addicted.
I was getting a lot more rejections than acceptances. Then even the rejections stopped.
I like to think of myself as a successful humor columnist. And I used to earn
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