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[Bast]

Robin Bignall wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:23:43 -0500, James Morrow
> <jamesemorrow@email.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <hs5f6u$i3g$1@news.eternal-september.org>, spam@uce.gov
>> says...
>>> This pretty much sums up where Facebook is as of the last week or so.
>>> <http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/>
>>>
>>> Silj
>>>
>>>
>> I feel strongly that what Facebook has done is morally wrong. But like
>> so many web sites, they make to rules, I have a Facebook page which
>> contains minimum content. I'll soon close my account. But once data is
>> uploaded to such a site you can't control it or its use. No Facebook or
>> Twitter for me. I chose to leave and thus I control my data. Privacy is
>> not a game but a principal. I've posted to Usenet for over a decade now
>> with no real problems. But the social networking sites are pervasive in
>> their intrusiveness. I chose to go. That is my decision. I am in
>> control.
>
> How does one close an account and remove oneself from Facebook?



No slight intended, but WOW, if you are a member and have to ask that.
I think that pretty much validates the article.

[Dustin Cook]

"Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> wrote in
news:hsf6gr$15a$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> Robin Bignall wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 22:23:43 -0500, James Morrow
>> <jamesemorrow@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <hs5f6u$i3g$1@news.eternal-september.org>, spam@uce.gov
>>> says...
>>>> This pretty much sums up where Facebook is as of the last week or
>>>> so. <http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/>
>>>>
>>>> Silj
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I feel strongly that what Facebook has done is morally wrong. But
>>> like so many web sites, they make to rules, I have a Facebook page
>>> which contains minimum content. I'll soon close my account. But once
>>> data is uploaded to such a site you can't control it or its use. No
>>> Facebook or Twitter for me. I chose to leave and thus I control my
>>> data. Privacy is not a game but a principal. I've posted to Usenet
>>> for over a decade now with no real problems. But the social
>>> networking sites are pervasive in their intrusiveness. I chose to
>>> go. That is my decision. I am in control.
>>
>> How does one close an account and remove oneself from Facebook?
>
>
>
> No slight intended, but WOW, if you are a member and have to ask that.
> I think that pretty much validates the article.
>
>
>

I have to agree...


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