{"id":10013,"date":"2019-03-19T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=9874"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:17:11","slug":"detailing-the-delete-facebook-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.security.org\/resources\/detailing-delete-facebook-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Detailing the Delete Facebook Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook: A social media platform with no shortage of puppy pictures, cooking videos, and privacy scandals.<\/p>\n<p>2018 was described as a colossally bad year for Facebook, and it's easy to see why. A series of high-profile data and privacy breaches culminated in a public apology tour to make up for the Cambridge Analytica debacle and congressional testimony from Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook owns a massive piece of the social media market\u2013more than Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat\u2013 but how many people trust the site with their personal data these days, and are they less inclined to use it with controversy looming over the site? Research from 2018 shows nearly 3 in 4 Facebook users are making some effort to adjust their presence on the site, including 42 percent who took a break in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21303,"template":"views\/lp\/lp-2021.blade.php","class_list":["post-10013","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Detailing the Delete Facebook Phenomenon | Security.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After Cambridge Analytica, 42% of Facebook users took a break. 66% deleted it over data privacy. 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