Digital Strategist Still Glad She Quit Facebook

Tonight’s CNBC documentary “The Facebook Obsession,” hosted by Lester Holt, features a segment about LA-based digital marketing strategist Alana Joy (pictured), who famously quit Facebook last June as part of an organized protest.

Joy is still on every other social media platform, from Twitter to LinkedIn to Myspace, so she’s not exactly a hermit. FBLA decided to check in with Joy, seven months after she deleted 500+ friends and signed off Facebook for good, to see how it’s going.

“It was the privacy issues and also the overall lack of authenticity and disrespect for their users that has made the most profound impact on me,” Joy tells FishbowlLA via email.

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