Why you should quit Facebook now

[Commentary] In November 2009, I quit Facebook. I had had an account for about a year, but with my 30th birthday and a cross-country move both looming, I felt it would be a symbolic way to shed my youth, a gesture that signified “I'm grown up now.” I didn't miss it — I didn't think much of it at all, in fact — until I took this job writing about cybersecurity. After six months of reporting on Facebook scams and the privacy infringements its users face daily, I came to a conclusion: You should quit Facebook. And you should do it now.