Facebook Owes You More Than This

Published: March 20, 2018, 5:33 p.m.

Signing up for a Facebook account, or any free online service, comes with an implicit bargain: Use it as much as you want\u2014check your News Feed, like a status, poke a friend\u2014and in return, the company will collect your data, and use it to serve you ads both on Facebook and around the web. But what appears to be a simple exchange has become anything but. This is not a screed about deleting your Facebook account\u2014although if you want to, here's how.