Davin O’Dwyer, in The Irish Times:
It is entirely in Facebook’s interests to make the quitting process as difficult as possible, of course, but eventually it is indeed possible to get out and stay out. Like many people, if I never saw that awful blue and grey layout ever again, or never had to waste precious time fiddling with privacy settings, I would be simply delighted. It is a deplorably bad site in many respects that matter to me as a user.
Ever since I left Facebook, I’ve only received positive comments—apart from the occasional and inevitable snarky “You won’t last without Facebook.” But the reason people think so, jokingly or not, has less to do with me specifically and more with Facebook itself. But they’re so wrong.
And not having to deal with horrifying design is just icing on the cake.