Oakland Mayor Jean Quan to disable Facebook page

SFGate ^ | 12/16/11 | Will Kane

[SmithL]

An unruly Occupy camp. Violent protests that attracted national condemnation. A 1-year-old child shot to death on the street. Two sports teams looking to leave town. A recall campaign.

No wonder Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is going to delete her Facebook page, which her staff says has attracted threats, bigoted rants and all-round angry emotions.

“Mayor Quan will be disabling this Facebook fan page. If you would like to contact the mayor’s office, please use (her website),” her staff posted on the page late Thursday.

And as you might expect, that post attracted more than 160 comments in just 12 hours,

[SmithL]

[B.O. Plenty]

bump

[duckman]

I don't trust the Face Book security. I recently disabled my account. My wife passed away earlier this year and I updated my profile on Face Book to widowed. Don't you know I started to get unsolicited emails from eharmony.com, match.com etc. A coincidence?

[SmithL]

I’m sorry about your wife, and no, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

[bgill]

Just another reason why not to sign up for FB. If I want someone to know anything, I’ll call them on the phone or tell them in person. Sorry, but I don’t feel the need to announce what I’m doing every minute of the day nor do I care to know what flavor their Starbucks was this morning.

[ExCTCitizen]

An unruly Occupy camp. Violent protests that attracted national condemnation. A 1-year-old child shot to death on the street. Two sports teams looking to leave town. A recall campaign.

Ms Quan...Oakland is really going great with you in there. What did you do before? Obama supporter??

[Buckeye McFrog]

the threats and bigoted rants are coming from disgruntled Oakland A’s fans, I’m sure...

[ex91B10]

"...attracted threats, bigoted rants and all-round angry emotions."

I would love to hear some of these "threats, bigoted rants and all-round angry emotions" and how her staff categorized them.