Comments on: A farewell to Facebook http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/ a potpourri of mirth and madness Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Weinehall http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3494 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:39:32 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3494 e-mail accounts don’t necessarily expire, nor get hacked to any further extent than Facebook accounts do. Just get yourself a gmail, yahoo, hotmail or what not account and be done with it. Permanent, backed up and spam filtered (well, at least gmail, dunno whether the other two are spam filtered).

]]> By: Michael http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3321 Tue, 18 May 2010 15:57:53 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3321 I did it a week ago. Its amazing how much time I wasted on that damn site now that I’m not on it. I don’t miss it though. Deleting my Facebook was the best thing I have done in awhile. Identi.ca and twitter are my new social home until diaspora.

]]> By: Sean http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3309 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:23:01 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3309 I have rickrolled my facebook account, but am considering leaving as well.

]]> By: Jo Shields http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3302 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:44:48 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3302 From what I hear, setting your profile picture to a penis is the only sure-fire way to be erased from Facebook. Even with the steps you took, you may see your friends listed on “instant personalization” websites, even though you’re not logged in and erased your account.

]]> By: Jeffrey Anthony http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3297 Mon, 17 May 2010 10:42:52 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3297 http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/theory/future.php

]]> By: Jeffrey Anthony http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3296 Mon, 17 May 2010 10:23:53 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3296 It’s likely that everything is saved on their servers under primary and foreign key relations weather you ‘change’ or ‘delete’ any of it or not.

]]> By: Kevin Mark http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3295 Mon, 17 May 2010 06:50:36 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3295 I am using some of my energy to test onesocialweb and hope that all my FLOSS folks can join it unless diaspora or something else pops up that is better. In the meanwhile FB has me :)

]]> By: isagani http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3287 Sun, 16 May 2010 22:37:15 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3287 Oh my, so I guess deleting all your info is useless. Did you ever figure out how to actually delete it?

]]> By: Joey Hess http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3286 Sun, 16 May 2010 20:55:10 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3286 There’s a facebook app called “give me my data” that lets you copy out info like your friend list, status updates, and photos. When I left facebook, I first deleted all my info as you did. Then I used that app to archive all my info.

Wait, what? Yes, all the data I had deleted was still available to the app.

]]> By: Andreas Olsson http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/16/a-farewell-to-facebook/#comment-3285 Sun, 16 May 2010 20:21:02 +0000 http://mdzlog.alcor.net/?p=1186#comment-3285 The follow up is not bad either.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/15/facebook-is-a-utility-utilities-get-regulated.html

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