Ever since the Cambridge Analytica controversy started featuring in the global news Facebook has been in the eye of the storm. A late and half-hearted apology by Mark Zuckerberg seems to have satisfied no one except himself. For the first time viral news is working against him after it influenced world opinion and even brought down dictators and governments for many years.
The hashtag #deletefacebook has been doing the rounds on social media and people seem to be leaving Facebook in droves. But is it so easy to leave a platform that you may have used for a decade, and leave it simply by deactivating the account?
To be honest, I did try to leave Facebook and deactivated my account, but Facebook actually does not delete the account. It keeps it in storage and as soon as you log back in it accepts you back with a verification email. The barrier to rejoining Facebook hardly exists, as Facebook wants you to come back if you had planned to leave. I ended up deactivating and logging back in several times for some purpose or the other.
The bigger obstacle is the ease of logging into sites with you Facebook login. I log into many sites like Canva using my Facebook login. In fact for some sites I may not even have a separate login other than the Facebook login credentials. That makes it all the more difficult because most people count a single log in for multiple sites a sort of perk that comes with being a member of an established platform.
Last but not the least, almost everyone has friends and family on Facebook and the main source of news pertaining to what they are up to, is Facebook. You come to know what's happening in their lives without the need of calling each one of them up saving a lot of time and serving as a bit of entertainment when one of them posts something funny that might have happened to them.
How hard is it to leave Steemit? Well to begin with, you can not delete your account. Once you have created an account and posted on Steemit, it will always be there on the blockchain. It is one of the main features of the blockchain technology, that nothing can be deleted or overwritten. If you have to leave Steemit, you can only do so by logging out and never coming back again.
If you have built up a following and have lots of friends here, it will be difficult to say goodbye suddenly one day. But if you have been a casual poster with hardly a following and few friends it will be easier to do so. After all so many signed up on Steemit in the hopes of getting rich overnight and when they saw that there is work to be done, quit, never to come back again.
So to conclude, it is difficult to leave both platforms once you have invested in it with your time and in the case of Steemit, even with your money. But Steemit being the newer platform could be an easy place to quit for some who may not have been serious on the platform.
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