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[solarbird]

Top ten reasons you should quit using facebook. How to permanently delete your Facebook account, which they make difficult to do.

Also, some Google search tips.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

Do you see any remaining value in Facebook, other than (say...) creative culture-jamming?

[solarbird]

Facebook suxx0rs. Unfortunately I know several people who will use it and only it. :(

The stupid, it doth verily burn!

[maellenkleth]

Uh, yeah. :(

I do rather suspect that some excessive number of people feel the same way about their privacy, as they do en concernant the American constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: "don't use it anyway, so who cares if it's taken away?"

Going out to throw stones in the harbour, now.

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ditto... I'd delete it if only I could tempt everybody else I know to join somewhere non-evil instead.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth is an excellent candidate. Quite a few of us are already up there...

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I have actually abandoned a couple of friendships because people weren't willing to stay in contact any way other than StalkBook, and I won't touch the thing.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Now, see, this is why I don't follow fads, and am rarely an early adopter. :-)

[goodconceited.livejournal.com]

Oh Facebook. :/
My friends are always up my back about why I use a fake name and don't throw real pictures up there (unless I am a cartoon bear in real life, who's to say), and now even that is not enough to make the creepy-crawly feeling go away.

[uniquecrash5.livejournal.com]

Assume anything you put anywhere on Facebook is 100% public, no matter what.

While their dedication to 'privacy' is basically non-existent, if you follow this simple rule, it's a fine social networking service.

[403.livejournal.com]

This.

I have an account so that my web presence is findable by potential employers. *shrug*

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I have LinkedIn for that.

[solarbird]

It's just that they're such dicks. Also, I hate the way it wants to force everything into tiny, bite-sized chunks. The short-attention-span-theatre of it annoys me. As do all the apps. Every time I log in I'm banning another four or five apps.

[loopback.livejournal.com]

i am in the unenviable position of having to be on facebook as a part of my job. No shit.

[maellenkleth]

For that, on your behalf, I am very sorry.

Also, by the bye, your user-icon is great! Where did you find/make it?

[loopback.livejournal.com]

It's from this:

http://residents.com/historical/page0/page13/page13.html

I am, uh, a huge residents geek.

Wastebook

[blues-kun.livejournal.com]

Fuck Fussbook anyway.