This is a clarifying moment. It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is.

[Celerity]

10. I joined FB in 2009, when I turned 13, deleted my account in the fall of 2011

as I had developed an aversion to it and I also had serious privacy concerns. I remember stumbling across an old cartoon in 2011 from late 2006 or 2007, where is was a room full of US CIA and NSA people, who (I think some huge scandal had just come out about them snooping on Americans in the mid-noughties) where sitting around pondering about how would they now get people to willingly (as they could not spy on them anymore clandestinely) give up all there person info, daily whereabouts, habits, interests, friends, etc etc, and in ran a fresh-faced Zuckerberg saying, (I am paraphrasing) 'Do I have something to show YOU!!!'

I still have a 2009 Twitter (the very first Tweet ever was March 21, 2006, and Twitter was publicly launched July 15, 2006) account that I only use to read Twitter.

I also have a 2009 YouTube (YT launched April 23, 2005) account, and a Whatsapp (first released January 2009, the main 2.0 version was launched in August, 2009) account. I also have a reddit account (launched late June, 2005) since 2009 as well.

I never did Instagram (launched July 16, 2010), Pinterest (launched March 15th, 2010), Snapchat (launched as Picaboo on July 8, 2011, rebranded as Snapchat in September 2011), Flickr (launched February 10, 2004), Tumblr (launched February 1st, 2007), LinkedIn (launched May 5, 2003), Viber (launched December 2, 2010), Dischord (launched May 13, 2015), or WeChat (launched January 21, 2011.)

I also refuse to use TikTok (launched in China in September 2016, globally September 2017) due to even worse security concerns than I have with Facebook. Same for Telegram (launched 14 August 2013), which is Russian run, and the owners can access your shit, as although it does have client-server encryption, the network developers have encryption keys. Telegram and Gab (launched on August 15, 2016) are littered with white power Nazis and alt-right scum world-wide.

I also do not use Messenger, aka the old Facebook Chat, which was gradually released to users in April 2008. Facebook revamped its messaging platform in November 2010 and subsequently acquired group messaging service Beluga in March 2011, which the company used to launch its standalone mobile apps on August 9, 2011 (I quit FB a month or two after that).

Friendster, (launched in March 2003), hi5 (launched in June 2003), and MySpace (launched in August 2003), were all before my time (their heydays.)