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chasm said:

Unless you are certifiably insane, DO NOT give Facebook ANY medical data about yourself. Not through posts on FB, not through Instagram, not through messages on WhatsApp, and certainly not by strapping a medical data-mining device onto your wrist! That data, along with everything else FB collects, will be sold to insurers, hospitals, Big Pharma, the Russians, and other unworthy lowlifes.j

I really wish people were smarter about this stuff. Look at everything these non-Apple tech companies do to get your data -- you'd think more of the public would work out that such data is waaaaaaay more valuable than the baubles they're given in exchange for it, and demand much higher rates before permission is granted. But noooooo, we're not that smart apparently.

Other countries with real privacy policies are that smart. But not us.

jblongz said:

Bring on the heat.  Apple's watch is fancy, trendy, and powerful, but Google's FitBit has been very resourceful, and in many respects, more usable.  If Facebook's watch can last at least 4 days on a single charge like the FitBit, it has a chance at eating some smart watch market on the advantage of efficiency alone.  I'm sorry for any iWatch user that must charge their watch every 24 hours...don't we have enough to manage in life?

MacPro said:

photography guy said:

I use Facebook because it lets me keep in touch with friends and family and I'm in a number of FB groups. It's definitely convenient, and I'm fully aware that I AM THEIR PRODUCT. That's the evil genius of Facebook. That being said, my wish is that Facebook is forced to break up; divest from Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc. And honestly, while I use it every day, if Facebook were to fold, I would not shed any tears. It would be tougher to get in touch with a lot of far-flung friends though...

Would an alternative such as MeWe be usable instead?

iOS_Guy80 said:

Never have used Facebook. More important things to do with my time.