{"id":179,"date":"2010-08-09T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:10:32","slug":"why-i-closed-my-facebook-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/179","title":{"rendered":"Why I closed my facebook account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this so I have something to link to, so I don&#8217;t have to keep answering the question over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Starting yesterday, I began to receive emails from various facebook friends, wherein they warned me that perhaps my fb account had been hacked. It seems my fb friends were getting invites for a &#8216;free ipad&#8217; from me. I don&#8217;t have any way to tell whether my account has actually been hacked, but I was able to log in with my current password, change the password, and then disable the account.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this kind of thing before from other users&#8230; legit-looking invites that are probably faked somehow. I don&#8217;t really know, don&#8217;t really care, except that facebook has just become more trouble than it&#8217;s worth. I now retreat to platforms where messages are not sent on my behalf, ever. Feel free to follow me via Twitter @GuacamoleQueen. You can find my generic, life-oriented musings here: https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this so I have something to link to, so I don&#8217;t have to keep answering the question over and over. Starting yesterday, I began to receive emails from various facebook friends, wherein they warned me that perhaps my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitbucket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}