The Glade 4.0

Well, that does it for me. I've been teetering on the fence for a while, but this cinches it - time to cancel my Facebook account.



Sorry, dude. Even in college I was a privacy hawk. You're an *ss, and no, I don't trust you. (By the by, my gf kinda knew this guy at Harvard, and confirms that he's every bit the arrogant prick his detractors claim he is.)

Thanks for posting this. I was teetering on the fence as well. Time to cancel mine too.

Lol

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Perhaps this will be of interest for you to follow, then.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

yeah, I saw some initial info on that. Definately going to be worth keeping tabs on.

They all look like douches though.

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Well, before ya'll delete your facebooks, go do this first: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2936

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Sorry, but what Elmo said in that thread. The whole way they setup Apps in Facebook turned me off from the start. That compiled with how the CEO treats privacy means not just no, but hell no.

I'm very excited about diasporea. Been waiting for someone to take out facebook for awhile.

I better go delete my face...oh wait, I never signed up in the first place. Honestly, nearly every person I know that uses facebook acts just like the town of South Park did in their facebook episode.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Got my Facebook account towards the end of my MS degree program. We were all everyone else's friend. Tight knit group!

Then we all graduated and moved far far apart and fell out of contact.

Since then, only people that have stalked me down from high school have tried to friend me. I've not really logged back in since seeing that.

I gather there are two sort of people -- those that will friend whoever and enjoy the spotlight of their status update going out to all 100+ of them, and those who don't understand why that is in any way desirable. I don't think the latter sort see much value in Facebook as-is. Perhaps this Diaspora one can keep the (very few, IMO) good things about Facebook without all the nonsense around it, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Social stuffs need people to work, so if it never really gets momentum going in the first place...

Maybe I just haven't figured out all the new etiquette Facebook demands of you. I don't know the protocols or consequences for denying friends, coworkers, bosses, etc. Easier to just avoid it altogether.

I'm still pretty amazed that something similar to fb hasn't popped up yet. It's been long enough now that you would think there'd even be a couple acceptable alternates.

That Zucker guy is literally running fb into the ground all by himself. Their horrendous policies on private data don't help the situation of course.

Unfortunately I have to continue to use it, there's a few groups I'm in that use it for disseminating information and such that would be hard to get otherwise. I am far more mindful of what I put up and what information I put in though.

There are, like, a billion alternatives ... overseas. Not so much here, I guess. I'm in Noggel's second group. Kind of signed up by accident to view someone else's profile one day, and all of a sudden, people were throwing snowballs at me. I killed my account soon thereafter.

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So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

With the growing privacy issues with Facebook, I've been considering deleting mine as well. I really don't like the direction this social networking is heading, especially how open people themselves are becoming. Even without concerns about privacy on Facebook's end, there are still major privacy issues with posting things publicly on their site.

For example:

There's a young 20's female at my work who goes out pretty much five nights a week. She's what people would refer to as a "Facebook whore." She routinely goes out with a few of her friends from work, and probably many of her 5,000+ facebook friends. So Female A (the Facebook whore) posts all kinds of updates and pictures about how she went out with her girls Tuesday night. Female B, one of the girls she went out with was plastered all over the pictures and Facebook walls, talking about how awesome it was. Female B arrives at work not feeling well from the night before and leaves early with a "headache." Female A is friends with the whole damn building. Everyone knows what happened.

Examples like this just go to show how little privacy people even have amongst themselves, with self-inflicted privacy issues you could say. In some cases, Female B is getting fired because of stupid friends who share everything.

I can't believe how naive people are about their updates. If I were a complete stranger to Female A, a person who happened to become friends on Facebook, I'd know her entire schedule within two days. I'd know exactly where she's going to be, what she did, and probably quite a bit of other information about her. It's crazy to think how open Female A is to share everything about herself with literally 5,000 other people who she vaguely knows.

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There's no real sense in deleting your account. Doing so doesn't remove the data they've collected from you. The best you can do is not give them any more.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

True. That's kind of a scary thing to be honest.

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Better to leave them in the past with old info than to keep feeding them.

The common argument I hear people use is that they have nothing to hide, so why bother? Of course, privacy issues are privacy issues, in my book.

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I think there's a difference between deactivating your account, in which case everything is retained in case you want to reactivate in the future (I'm sure that's the reason) and deleting your account, which does wipe everything. At least, that's what it sounds like according to their Help Center.

So, you're going to take the word of the people you don't trust with your info?

Uh huh.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Nuked mine this morning.

Not sure it's take the word of Kaffis as hope for the best.

Hmm, appears I was 2 weeks early...

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/17 ... ay/?hpt=T2

More reasons to get out if you have Facebook, or Myspace http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/tc_ynews/ynews_tc2189

Or even to not join, if you've contemplated joining either of them.

The site has snowballed into a Walmart of the internet. People all talk how much they hate it, but they'll continue to go there. FB has it's talons deep into the internet. It won't be letting go anytime soon, privacy issues or not.

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There really is not any useful information on Facebook about me. You could get more with a perfunctory search of whitepages.com.

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