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> What can they do with it that damages me?

You can take your pick here and see what's most important to you: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com/

The consequences range from enabling the surveillance state, data theft, NSA slurping, job loss, employer intrusion, bullying, lowering of credit scores, depression, stalking, jail.

These are some interesting ones to name a few:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-c...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/finding_sociop...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scan...

> Doesn't take many of those for wholesale evacuation of Facebook, does it?

Sadly, I wouldn't bet on it.



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