I’ve thought about doing the same thing - wayyy too much info out there - I like my privacy.
Be very careful not to login through other sites or it won’t deactivate.
You had to write them by snail mail to get them kill it?
Facebook is nonsense.
Facebook is fine.
Most of my friends are boring and I don’t have too many but I do occasionally hear news about friends and relatives that I would not otherwise know.
I don’t post anything I would be ashamed to put in the paper... altho I did just post that everytime I see Natalie Portman in a movie, I want to slap her.... but I digress.
Facebook is like everything else. You can use it or you can abuse it.
A lot of people brag about not owning a television. This just tells me that they don’t have the discipline to use television in a good way.
Your loss Saxie! Facebook is, like it or not, the most intellectually stimulating invention since Gutenberg.
Out of curiosity I started a FB account, and then I found out just how much it tracks you.
Thats a big no-no for OPSEC, that is should a person actually need to use that.
Problem is as good as FB is and could be its also a perfect touchy-feely tool for those with an agenda. Like a socialistic agenda. So I too feel perfectly comfortable deactivating the account, and its not easy, even just getting the info to eradicate FB is difficult.
Sorry charlie to those that that think FB is the social utopia of the future, I think its already been compromise to become a intel gathering tool.
30 years from now FB will be the answer of alot of trivia questions .
I broke down last year and got a page just so I could visit Mark Levin’s page and occasionally post there. I have all the blocks on and no friends and no groups. Plus the page is made with a fake name. I have never trusted Facebook.
Brag book? It’s really just a conduit for people to brag. I find it so annoying.
Be careful to wait at least three+ weeks before you even check to make sure your account is deleted.
How will you play Farmville now?
Facebook is a free service like a pleasant walk in a public park. Its users don’t give a damn that GM lost $10 million paying to display useless ads, which they had paid, hear this, $30 million to develop. Its users don’t give damn that investors who paid $38 per share are now losing money on paper holding the stock. If people want to tell their Facebook friends what they had for breakfast, it doesn’t bother me like it appears to bother some of those unlucky investors and those advertisers who hadn’t gotten their money back.
Facebook, as I see it, and as I use it, is what we had been promised a few years ago - a first successful attempt to individualize information flowing to us. I get pings about new book and music releases from the artists or publishers that I have selected, I get news of the sort that interests me, and communications from friends, however frivolous they may seem to those who think they are smarter than us and above it all. And I was very skeptical myself before joining Facebook, which was under pressure from a family member with whom I had some business dealings more beneficial to me than to her.
How and if Facebook will make money is of no concern to me. Why should it be?