I salute you bro... 2.3 Billion? WE are in sock-puppet territory with these valuations. Definitely time to get short the entire S&P, because there is waaaay too much stupid money sloshing around.

You can close your account all you want... they will still track you and store the sites you visit unless you are very diligent with your filtering. Facebook is in a boatload of trouble, IMO, because they don't have the same protection Equifax had, and every equifax exec should have been thrown in prison.

The problem here isn't the extraction... it's *removing* the data they have AFTER extraction. Facebook wants that, AND all the site hits from their javascript code that people unwitting put on thier sites, and they are not likely to give that up easily because it's a gold mine long after you leave FB.

You'd think BYOD is cheaper but the $$ is in tracking everything you do. Same with Facebook and all the other "free" services... it's like "free" anal sex by a prison gang. Sure... it's "FREE".