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jpanhalt:
Can one ever escape?  How did you do it?

At least 20 years ago I signed into Facebook  to keep in touch with family.  I might have actually used it once or twice and haven't signed on since.  In january, I got a notice that my account had been suspended/delisted (I don't recall the exact term) and I had to appeal within 180 days if I wanted to reactivate it.

That made me happy.  Then, every day since I get one to three emails telling me I have notifications.  There is no way to contact Facebook without an active account.  Is there any way to stop that spam?  BTW: The "Can Spam Act" probably applies.  FTC has done nothing, and an agent from my state AG told me they had to follow Facebook's rules, which require me to set-up a new, secure email.  He wasn't even embarrassed to say that.
Andy Chee:
I don't use Facebook, but do use Facebook Messenger.
brucehoult:
Sadly, non-technical members of my extended family do tend to use Windows and Facebook and there is very little I can do about it :-( There are some cousins who use Macs, so that's something. I don't think anyone but me uses Linux.

Twenty four years ago I set up the family@hoult.org mailing list, with about 50-60 people on it: my parents, siblings, aunts&uncles, cousins, my grandmother's brother, later on kids from the next generation. At first it was heavily used, but later there was demand for a Facebook group (which I also set up), and the mailing list has dwindled away.

I don't see any way to do without a Facebook account. But I don't put any content there. And I don't read my "feed", only a handful of individual groups I belong to.
SiliconWizard:
Just use Matrix. There's a client for every platform.

Fun fact, at some point I was getting email notifications from FB even though I never had a FB account myself (yes, I'm an alien). At first I thought they were fake, but apparently not. I was getting them strictly on gmail. Flagging them "spam" wasn't doing anything, they just kept coming back. That eventually ended.



m k:
Never had an account there, but still has a yahoo address.
Many accounts and addresses disappeared in between.
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