Sep 27, 2010

Why leave facebook...

Hi EhsDirector,
We have received a request to permanently delete your account.
Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days.
Thanks, The Facebook Team.

Maybe me not buying into Social Networking is not a big enough reason for you to leave... here are a few more:
  • The rise of American Idiot... Nope we twitter away our day to expand the new idiots. Charles Pierce - The rise of Idiot America, though, is essentially a war on expertise. It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of the intellectual elites that Richard ...
  • Digital Disconnect Causing Dramatic Drop In Empathy... and in fact rarely distinguished between news and more general information. ...often by following the story via "unconventional" outlets, such as through text messages, their e-mail accounts, Facebook and Twitter. Please read full here.
  • Over 40% of Twitter is pointless babble...A study released by Pear Analytics, a research firm that specializes in website analysis, shows that 41% of all traffic on Twitter is pointless babble, as in "I just combed my hair." But the more interesting statistic is by how little ...
  • Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter Because most engineers are smart ;-) /."A recent EE Times survey of engineers found that 85% don't use Twitter. More than half indicated that the statement 'I don't really care what you had for breakfast' best sums up their feelings ...

Your computer is a tool, do not become the tool of your computer.

Smashing - Take back your life... delete them all.
  • You can find more information on deleting your Twitter account here.
  • Official instructions for deleting your myspace account can be found here.
  • As far as social networking sites go, LinkedIn probably has the most straight-forward account closure process found here.
  • Full details on deleting your Google account can be found on the Google's Help page "Deleting: Your Google Account".
  • Closing your Windows Live account is actually surprisingly easy.
You just got 30 hours a week of your life back... your welcome ;-)