Facebook Status: Hey everyone! I just moved to Charlotte. My new address is 570 Chestnut Lane, Apt. 20. And I have a new phone number, too! (704) 555-5555. Call me! Can’t wait to celebrate my birthday in the new place, July 3! Oh, and by the way, here’s my social security #! 000-00-000. Make sure you stalk me online and steal my identity and send me all kinds of stupid ads for stuff I had no idea you knew I liked!

This is something you’d hopefully never see on Facebook, but it might as well be with the privacy problems that the social media platform has had in recent years.

The media giant has been under fire several times in recent years for privacy breaches and for selling user information to third party advertisers, among other accusations. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal involved one of the company’s researchers taking 50 million users’ information without their consent and has led to a number of people calling for users to delete their accounts.

Other recent incidents have included data breaches, having knowledge about third parties collecting user data and failing to disclose this to users. The site also sponsors apps that harvest vast amounts of users’ personal information. After all of these problems, it’s no surprise that users are calling for boycotts.

Time magazine ran an article about this and included famous celebrities quitting the site in the #DeleteFacebook movement.  Big names such as Jim Carrey, Cher, Kumail Nanjiani and companies like Tesla and Mozilla are leading the movement and encouraging others to take hold of their privacy and delete Facebook.

I’m sure we all know someone who posts personal information about their lives, like when they’re going on a trip, what they had for dinner and the like. In fact, I know someone who regularly posts her work schedule. I don’t think the public needs to know about her or anyone’s daily activities.

Should we boycott Facebook in protest of their lax privacy regulations? The simple answer for me is yes. If we truly value our privacy and don’t want to encourage online prying and stealing of information, we should be boycotting, too. It’s clear that Facebook doesn’t value privacy and will continue allowing user information to be exposed.

But it’s just not that simple. First of all, us users unwittingly agree to allow our personal data to be used just simply by using the site. Despite this glaring misuse of information, it’s hard to discount the wonderful advantages to the social media platform. It enables you to easily keep in touch with and chat with friends, share important life milestones, among other things.  It’s also a great way to share important information.

I know only a handful of people who have deleted their account. Those who have done so have done it quietly. Most of my friends have kept their accounts and continue using Facebook as though there were never any privacy violations. I know some people who have just adjusted what they share and their use of the platform.

I hate the invasion of privacy, but I feel that I’m losing too much without my account. And this is why Facebook continues to violate privacy. We keep using it like nothing happened.

So I’ve struck a compromise. I use my account less frequently, and mostly as a way of sharing positive news stories, funny memes and information about issues I am passionate about. I also avoid posting personal information as much as possible. I even deleted a number of apps that are accessing my information. It’s also important to call Facebook out on their violations. I don’t know how much this will help, but I guess it’s my way of protesting for now. Maybe one day I’ll be able to delete my account. In the meantime, I hope to be one less person for the site to kick around.