10 Reasons You Should Delete Your Facebook Account

8. Their Reporting Guidelines Are Draconian And Tyrannical

With billions of posts to the site every day, not all of which are appropriate or even legal, Facebook clearly requires a strong process for users to report content they see on their newsfeeds and timelines that they don€™t wish to see. However, this process is horribly flawed and badly applied. Facebook outsources its post reporting teams overseas and leaves it entirely up to those workers to determine whether a post violates either a) the law or b) the site€™s own Terms Of Service, and if it does, what action should be taken. However, these teams seem often to ignore very real concerns (like, for example, the multiple reporting of groups advocating racism, encouraging animal cruelty, or posting images of abuse), while censoring things like images of homosexual couples kissing, sculptures representing implied nudity, etc. That's right... far right organisations are allowed to peddle their hate, but a link to an art exhibition's website containing a still image of a modest sculpture of a naked pensioner can be reported and the poster banned for a month. Not that we're still bitter about that. These issues mean that stalkers and trolls are fully capable of reporting innocent Facebook users and having their accounts limited temporarily, banned or even deleted. And of course there€™s almost never any right of reply when you are reported by someone for something that should be utterly irreproachable, because€