It's been a week since I quit Facebook. It feels like liberation | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Wed, 28/03/2018 - 4:00am

Facebook was an Exocet into the bunker of my obsessive compulsions

The revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s harvest of Facebook data signalled the end of the end for me.

The beginning of the end had come a year or so earlier when I deleted the Facebook app from my phone (yes, I reinstalled it; I’ll deal with the addiction shortly) because I felt it had become an unhealthy compulsion – somewhere between not being able to stop eating one of those huge buckets of synthetic-buttery popcorn at the cinema and hating yourself for watching Midsomer Murders week after week after week.