The Facebook Ghetto

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I don’t like Facebook.

I don’t like that it sets cookies and follows you everywhere else that you go on the web. Privacy concerns, buzz words, etc. I don’t like that CNN.com asks me to comment on an article — or shows me what other friends of mine have read on some news site. And finally, I just don’t like Facebook as a company.

However, Facebook is undeniably useful. Especially since I moved to the other side of the world, Facebook gives me a simple way to maintain a connection with the people back home.

So, I have a problem: how do I utilize Facebook without allowing it to have access to information it doesn’t deserve? Let me answer that question with a short digression on browsers.

Browsers

As much as I don’t like Facebook, I also don’t like Safari. I prefer either Firefox or Chrome to Safari (do I even have to mention Internet Explorer?). I’ve started using Chrome to the point where it’s my main browser. What does this have to do with Facebook? Because my hatred of Safari allows a solution for the problems that I have with Facebook.

My Solution

On my computer, Facebook is placed into a restricted ghetto called Safari. Since I dislike both Facebook and Safari, I’m killing two birds with one stone. Emphasis on killing. So every time I use Facebook, it’s exclusively through Safari, and I never sign into Facebook with my Chrome browser. I do all of my non-Facebook interneting in Chrome — free from the soulless all-watching eyes of Facebook. Make Safari and exclusively Facebook browser.

If you like/dislike different browsers than me, make whatever browser you dislike into your own Facebook ghetto.

Tagged as: Facebook, privacy, Protip