I'm curious about this, for people who are deleting their Facebook accounts

[Siwsan]

How many of them have submitted their DNA to one of those ancestry 'revelation' companies.

I likely don't have a good grasp on this whole data sharing situation, and could just be overly paranoid, but I don't care what assurances are given that health related DNA info won't be shared. If the price is right, it will be - especially with health and life insurance carriers.

Hopefully if you think I'm WAAAYYYYY off base, you will be gentle in setting me right.

[blake2012]

1. definitely would not do that.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. You are so right!!! - to think that Zuckerberg would call those of us "dumbass"

for trusting him with our information FACEBOOK - - Ancestry - 23&Me - give me a break....and they want to charge you for giving them your DNA.....now that IS dumbass!!!!

DO NOT GIVE ANYONE YOUR DNA!!!!!!

[Phoenix61]

3. I am so not a conspiracy theory nut but...

I have concerns about sharing my DNA. I think it's perfectly safe, now. However, what happens when they know what genes cause what disease and my insurance company or my employer gets my info. For me, just not worth the risk.

[backtoblue]

7. +1

I think this topic of DNA collection should be explored. So much information that could be used for evil people with sick agendas.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Do we know anything about the company? I have a box sitting on my desk ready to

get moving and do whatever to send in.

[Squinch]

4. Those are two very different things.

I've never been on FB because it has always seemed too intrusive to me. But the abuse of FB accounts was that former military psyops people designed ways to change the ways a targeted group of people think. They have been used to help evil people identify users' neuroses, fears, anxieties, hatreds and paranoia and exploit them.

I did do an ancestry test. I understand your point, though, because I did think carefully about how my information could be used. I figured that it could be used sometime in the future to deny me employment because of health weaknesses. I am old, near retirement, and fairly sure that I will never have to go job hunting again, so that was moot. I suppose in the outer reaches of possibility my DNA could be used to frame me for a crime, but I don't think I live that kind of life.

So, having weighed the costs and benefits to me of both things, I decided the DNA sharing was safe for me, and the data sharing was not something I wanted to do.

[underthematrix]

5. I haven't submitted a DNA sample to ancestry.com

and I also permanently deleted my facebook account. I was a member since 2008. But overtime, I developed a strong dislike of one particular function of facebook - the people you know or potential friends. There was no way to turn it off. I noticed that things I looked on different websites would end up as ads on my FB page. I noticed pages that I liked also linked me to pages I didn't like. Finally, I noticed that stuff also landed on my timeline based on what my friends. Until 2 years ago I only had 14 friends, mostly relatives. When I deleted my account I had 22 friends. I visited FB about once or twice a week.

During 2015 but more intensely during 2016 the attacks on HRC were relentless. It felt like psychological warfare which I tweeted about and associated with Trump's campaign.

To me, FB is a cesspool for unfiltered hate, fear and violent rhetoric. I'm happy I deleted my account.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. geez - how do you delete facebook account? hit help and they just said - Let us know ! nt

[underthematrix]

11. The delete my account is hard to find.

Here's the information I used. I recommend that you read carefully and follow all steps.
https://mashable.com/2014/07/02/how-delete-facebook/#xAoqaHwPEOqq

I decided to keep my Instagram account because I use it view photos from the three users I follow - PBO, MO, Pete Souza. I never post anything to Instagram. Never

[C_U_L8R]

6. We need a bill of data rights.

Our data belongs to us... not corporations.

[edhopper]

8. Those DNA ancestry test

are bullshit.

The data bases for the DNA are questionable.

The whole process isn't valid.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. I've never done Facebook but did submit DNA to Ancestry

Very pleased with my decisions on both matters. Ancestry led to contact by a distant cousin who had tons of information and anecdotes about my great grandparents that I otherwise never would have learned. He also provided pictures of them.

I'm not beholden to fear. That's what the other side prioritizes. I'm not on Facebook or social media for the same reason I don't own a smart phone and never will. IMO, emails were a positive advancement. It is great to communicate multiple times per day by that method instead of relying on phone calls or traditional mail. But everything else like texting and social media does not interest me in the slightest. When I am playing golf I want to be playing golf, not responding to texts or thinking that I need to be taking pictures of myself playing golf so I can post on some platform.

I can't imagine my face following around a phone in my hand hour after hour. I attend football and basketball games in which nearby spectators are technically there but they might as well not be, given how little of the action they actually witness, as opposed to several hours staring at their phone.

[Siwsan]

13. I've only just started using a smart phone, and NEVER use it for FB

For one thing, the screen is too small! I even find the keypad a struggle, when I compose a text. I constantly miss texts and calls because I can't get into the habit of carrying it, everywhere I go. I guess I need more pockets.

It took me a long time to set up a FB account but that is how I got back in touch with some great people from my distant past, and several massive groups of people who share the same interests as I do - whether it be political or, in one case, a British tv series I watch, that nobody else I know watches. We have daily, mostly enjoyable, sometime acrimonious, and always enlightening discussions. I'm retired, so I've got plenty of time and LOTS of opinions.

I still maintain that having your DNA info in a data bank might be a future problem, but to each their own. And I'm lucky because most of my family arrived here in the late 19th Century - some as orphans - and both sides already had completed 'family trees'. I'm heading out, in a few months, to meet up with some 2nd, 3rd and beyond cousins. I know as much about my ethnicity as I need, and identify with the bloodline that speaks the strongest to me.

Maybe if I had been adopted, my curiosity about my origins would outweigh my concern for potential misuse of information that goes far beyond revealing where I shop (BTW, I've never ordered anything other than an airline ticket, on line) or what political opinions I hold.