Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It Quotes

“I received my birthday greetings on Facebook. It was weird to get tens of happy birthday messages on my wall and not know whether they had smiled, or if they had dedicated more than a few seconds while browsing other people’s messages, email, web sites, chat windows, and who knows what else. I have never met in real life most of the people who greeted me. Some of them I don’t even know or remember who they are. None of the people who left me a birthday message called my phone.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Facebook is not your source of love and care. Facebook (and other Internet giants) digitally manipulates our need for love,”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“I don't need more friends. I need to be more in touch with the friends I already have.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Friendship is something to be achieved over years of deep and intimate connection, not by clicking on a small picture and requesting it.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“What I read on Facebook doesn’t tell me whether the person walks his talk. Since the mind can simulate anything, we don’t have a clue whether wise words are backed by actual experience or not.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“I don't need more friends. I need to be more in touch with the friends I already have. Parallel to the growth of social networks, sociological studies say that there is a decrease in the number of intimate friends in people’s real lives.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Friendship is something to be achieved over years of deep and intimate connection, not by clicking on a small picture and requesting it. As much as we can be aware of the differences between embodied friendship and the social network version, as every politician knows, a lie repeated hundreds of times becomes truth.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“According to a Pew Internet study titled "Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites," 88% of teen social media users have witnessed mean or cruel behavior and 15% have been targets of such behaviors (Pew Internet, 2011).”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“As Facebook users, we are actually working for Facebook for free, building their huge, functional database for ad targeting.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Also, removed friends are kept by Facebook, creating potential problems, for instance, for people in countries where government agencies may want to find out information regarding previous relationships.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Any Web page visited containing a Facebook like button is being traced, regardless of the fact that the user may not actually click any button.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit that has Facebook integrated.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Does participating in social networks improve the quality of our offline relationships or expand the number of our real connections? Not according to a study titled “Use of Social Network Sites and Instant Messaging Does Not Lead to Increased Offline Social Network Size, or to Emotionally Closer Relationships with Offline Network Members.” According to this study, “time spent using social media was not associated with larger offline networks, or feeling emotionally closer to offline network members. Further, those that used social media, as compared to non-users of social media, did not have larger offline networks, and were not emotionally closer to offline network members.” (Pollet,”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“If you have a slight tendency to be obsessive-compulsive, Facebook expands this tendency to the maximum. After all, Facebook itself is the most obsessive-compulsive company.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“In June, I received my birthday greetings on Facebook. It was weird to get tens of happy birthday messages on my wall and not know whether they had smiled, or if they had dedicated more than a few seconds while browsing other people’s messages, email, web sites, chat windows, and who knows what else. I have never met in real life most of the people who greeted me. Some of them I don’t even know or remember who they are. None of the people who left me a birthday message called my phone.”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit that has Facebook integrated.” While “the only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions”,”
― Ivo Quartiroli, Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It