Deleted my facebook
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI kinda got tired of having to worry about what bits of personal information Facebook is going to expose next (while being misleading about how to opt out). I don't use Facebook; I'd rather not have to spend any of my time constantly adjusting my settings and opt-outs on it!
If i were using it in any capacity, things might have been harder, but I don't, so now everyone/everything is gone. So, there. One less thing that needs to take up mental energy.
PS. I'm not sure what the difference between deactivate (accessible from editing your settings and delete (accessible via the helpful google-fu of my friends), but on the principle that the second is more hidden than the first, plus that deletion seems more permanent than deactivation, I did delete rather than deactivate.
PPS. I wish that facebook did not use the terminology of "friends". I removed people there because I got a bit twitchy about what can be datamined from network connections, but seriously, if you were my friends before facebook, then you are still my friends after facebook :-)
If i were using it in any capacity, things might have been harder, but I don't, so now everyone/everything is gone. So, there. One less thing that needs to take up mental energy.
PS. I'm not sure what the difference between deactivate (accessible from editing your settings and delete (accessible via the helpful google-fu of my friends), but on the principle that the second is more hidden than the first, plus that deletion seems more permanent than deactivation, I did delete rather than deactivate.
PPS. I wish that facebook did not use the terminology of "friends". I removed people there because I got a bit twitchy about what can be datamined from network connections, but seriously, if you were my friends before facebook, then you are still my friends after facebook :-)
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Date: 2010-04-24 04:27 pm (UTC)Ramon is using it too, but I don't know how much. Guess I'll just have to check what sort of info I put on it that I'd rather not share any more - though I think it's pretty public stuff now. *sigh*