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Add PS to Facebook event rant
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categories:
- privacy
- tech
alias: /facebook-pull
- consent
aliases: /facebook-pull
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I just received an invitation to an event via email.
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Initially I was frustrated at the person who chose to enter my email address into a Facebook event, when I was quite sure this person knew I'd opted out of Facebook a long time ago, but after talking it over with my partner, he pointed out that this is really Facebook's fault, for continuing to making it so *easy* to reach out to non-users, and so *hard* for those non-users to participate without engaging with the platform at a minimum, or signing up as users at worst.
No, Facebook. I'm not playing this game.
P.S. There *is* something to be said for the fact that we should consider others' privacy and consent when deciding whether to enter their personal details on a website (Facebook or otherwise), but in this case I think a high percentage of the blame is Facebook's, since it's practically *encouraging* this behaviour, and it takes a particular type of privacy-conscious and consent-focussed person to resist.