Goodbye, Facebook
Issue 133; 27 Nov 2007; last modified 08 Oct 2010
, Blech.
It's a walled garden. They've got antisocial tendencies. And the privacy implications are just frightening.
Buh bye.
Blech.
It's a walled garden. They've got antisocial tendencies. And the privacy implications are just frightening.
Buh bye.
Comments
You know they don't actually delete any of your data when you 'deactivate' your account?
http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/how_to_leave_facebook
Same reason I dumped LinkedIn - wonder if open social will help or hurt?
Yes, I noticed that it was "deactivated" not "deleted". I haven't decided how hard I want to push on that.
LinkedIn, Facebook are only the current IT fashion, I think. I would like to have not just single mega-platform, but a set of tightly bounded services, like Revyu, in which I can use my own personal data smoothly via some agents or by hand, doesn't matter. More important for me is to have personal data which will independent from any systems and platforms.
For example, I plan to accumulate my review data on my desktop closely and publish some of them in my blog too. After that the Revyu service or something also like Amazon will can to aggregate that information.