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There’s never been a better time to delete Facebook (besides every other time)

#DeleteFacebook is nothing new

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook users are beginning to delete their accounts, or at least considering it, if the explosion of the the hashtag #DeleteFacebook on Twitter is any indication

But prophesies of Facebook’s demise are nothing new, and calls to boycott or delete Facebook stretch back more than a decade, when the “Day Without Facebook” was launched in response to the introduction of Facebook’s newsfeed in 2006. (Mark Zuckerberg responded at the time, saying “Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.“)

This segment originally aired March 23, 2018, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

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