Personal Tech: Deleting Facebook Won't Ruin Your Life. In Fact, It Might Get Better.

Tips to optimize the tech in your life. View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Thursday, March 21, 2019 [NYTimes.com/PersonalTech »]( Hello. Here’s your weekly guide to navigating the world of technology. Glenn Harvey [Tech Fix]( [I Deleted Facebook Last Year. Here’s What Changed (and What Didn’t).]( By BRIAN X. CHEN Our personal tech columnist didn’t lose touch with his true friends — but strange things did occur, including Instagram thinking he was a woman. Tip of the week: How to hide your browsing from Facebook Plenty of you still haven't deleted your Facebook accounts. That fair: There are plenty of good reasons to stick around. But if you're concerned about your privacy, here’s how to prevent the social network from tracking your browsing activities across the web: • On your computer: Install the [Firefox web browser]( and download the [Facebook Container]( which is an add-on that isolates your browsing activities from Facebook. • On your phone: Delete the Facebook mobile app and only use Facebook.com via the mobile browser. Install a tracker blocker, like [Disconnect.me]( and activate the blocking. Alternatively, you can install a private web-browsing app like [Firefox Focus]( which blocks trackers by default, and only use this browser when loading Facebook.com. ADVERTISEMENT [The Sometimes Catastrophic, but Mostly Just Embarrassing Consequences of Screen Sharing at Work]( By LINDSAY MANNERING If you’ve presented in a meeting, you know the potentially calamitous effects of projecting your laptop screen — your naked, interior world, that is — before unsuspecting co-workers. [How to Not Ruin Your Life (or Just Die of Embarrassment) With a Screen Share]( By LINDSAY MANNERING There are settings to help you avoid this. Here’s how to use them. [The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All]( By MIKE ISAAC When an inveterate tweeter and social media hound decided to change his ways, what did he turn to? An email newsletter. [A Dating App for Three, Plus]( By HALEY MLOTEK Nonmonogamous coupling — and “thruppling” — has been lubricated by the internet. [Google Introduces Streaming Video Game Service]( By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI AND BRIAN X. CHEN By focusing on streaming games with its Stadia service, Google is trying to catch the next wave of gaming. [Instagram Wants to Be Your Mall]( By MATTHEW SCHNEIER Shopping has long represented a major opportunity for the platform. A new feature, introduced with Nike, Burberry, Zara and more, will grease the wheels by letting you buy without leaving the app. [Skies Aren’t Clogged With Drones Yet, but Don’t Rule Them Out]( By ELLEN ROSEN A host of regulatory issues have slowed the progress of drone-delivery companies but they are making some progress and lots of tests are underway. [Mark Bittman Is Starting a Food Magazine at Medium]( By JACLYN PEISER Salty will be among the new publications from the online platform led by Ev Williams, a former chief executive of Twitter. [All the Crime, All the Time: How Citizen Works]( By JOHN HERRMAN An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger. What it provides is more complicated. The Shift [A Mass Murder of, and for, the Internet]( By KEVIN ROOSE The terrorist attack in New Zealand is shocking on every level — and feels like a first for how unmistakably online it was. Tech We’re Using [Talking to Taffy Is Low Tech. And Intense.]( By TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER Armed with an Olympus recorder, she’s spent time with Gwyneth Paltrow and Bradley Cooper. Here’s how Taffy Brodesser-Akner of The New York Times Magazine tries to make herself unobtrusive in interviews. HOW ARE WE DOING? We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [personaltech_newsletter@nytimes.com](mailto:personaltech_newsletter@nytimes.com?subject=Personal Tech Newsletter%20Feedback). NEED HELP? Review our [newsletter help page]( or [contact us]( for assistance. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTimes [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Personal Tech newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2019 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018