On facebook, your data is their profit. You have no control over what happens to that data and, if what we know so far is any indication, facebook doesn't always have your best interests at heart.

Robinbook explores facebook's data policies by letting you download data they don't let you access, proving how they use dark design patterns to make it hard for you to give them up.

If you don't control your data, then these companies can choose how and where it gets used. By taking control, we gain the power to pick platforms that respect our values both through their actions and implementations.

1. Download your facebook archive and metadata using the Robinbook extension
2. Browse your backed up data using the Robinbook extension to compile the data together
3. Delete private messages, posts, friends and pages you don't want facebook to own
• Or delete all of your messages
• Or delete your entire account

What now?

Put your data to use! Upload it to a service that shares your values.

Restrict facebook's data access

Facebook Container - Stop facebook global tracking

View Profile As - See how your profile looks to others

Social Book Post Manager - auto clear old data

Delete your facebook account

Use a social network that uses independent servers

These systems allow users to host their own servers and identities, so that you have full control over your data as it can be restricted to your machine.

Mastodon - Twitter Clone

Diasporia* - Facebook Clone

Distributed computing

These are full ecosystems allowing current browsers to connect to decentralized networks. They may not be much right now, but these may be the Netscape equivalent of the future internet.

Blockstack - personally controlled data storage and identity

Ethereum - apps with rigorous, provable rules and controls