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The myth of the social network 3

The ever inter­est­ing Jere­miah Owyang has a post up on his blog about what to do if your boss “friends” you on Face­book. Now, it was made over a year ago, but I just saw it when he re-posted a link to it on the twit­ter­verse. It brings up the inter­est­ing idea of what options are avail­able in such […]

The devolution of Facebook privacy Comments Off

To truly under­stand the devo­lu­tion of pri­vacy that drove my deci­sion to aban­don Face­book, you need only look at this post by Matt McK­eon, which leads in: How­ever, Face­book hasn’t always man­aged its users’ data well. In the begin­ning, it restricted the vis­i­bil­ity of a user’s per­sonal infor­ma­tion to just their friends and their “net­work” (col­lege or […]

Vattene via Facebook! Comments Off

That’s it. After all the idiocy, incom­pe­tence, mali­cious­ness and gen­eral sus­pi­cious behav­ior at Face­book, I’ve deleted my account. You too can delete yours. First, it’s impor­tant to under­stand there’s a dif­fer­ence between “sus­pend­ing” your account and actu­ally delet­ing it. The first will sud­denly re-activate if you log back in, or do any­thing that might cause an […]