What can you do to protect your data on Facebook?

[rangerrebew]

What can you do to protect your data on Facebook?
December 20, 2018 by Mae Anderson
 

Facebook has shared users' private messages, contact information and other personal data with companies such as Microsoft and Spotify, according to a New York Times report that was alarming even in light of previous disclosures about the social network's practices.

Is there anything users can do to protect their data without walking away from Facebook altogether?

Experts say there is not much you can do about information that is already in Facebook's hands. But you can at least find out what the company has on you, and you can take steps to limit how much more it can gather from h


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-facebook.html#jCp

[Snarknado]

I'm not on FB but I'm tempted to buy the stock now that it's at a 52 week low - it's an almost-foolproof business model. Even if you use the service anonymously, with a VPN and fake accounts say, anything you do still contributes data of value to advertisers. And clearly hundreds of millions of users are so completely oblivious to privacy concerns that they can't wait to share their latest tidbit of personal info with the world. Like the old tobacco companies, once enough people are hooked on your product it's like a license to print money...

[Skeptic]

I don't put my data on the internet. My picture is on Facebook
but there's no valuable information attached, not even my legal
name. It's understandable that when Facebook became popular
as a sort of interactive yearbook thing for college students and
young professionals it was the cool thing to do to get noticed in
such circles but when the site spread to all stratum of society
and the hacker discrepancy exploded it became clear that
Facebook would never reclaim that original professional value
with business people and scholars that it initially had. Now
successful companies are hiring people without a social media
prescence over someone whose personal life is available
online in detail. I agree with them and would avoid hiring a
busy socialite for internal operations for security purposes.

[Fishrrman]

Question:
"What can you do to protect your data on Facebook?"

Answer:
Get off of Facebook. And your data, too.