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Dating site tries to out-Facebook Facebook

Posted by fp on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, In : quit facebook

As I understand it, Facebook was largely created so that boys who perhaps hadn't enjoyed the greatest success with girls could somehow make themselves look somehow desirable online.

As I also understand it, many people these days still join Facebook in the hope of extending their ability to find The One, or even A One, through friends, extended friends, or merely people they have talked and stalked into being their pretend friends.

Now a dating site for sad singles called Pirate Date claims to ...
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How do I remove myself from facebook? ... facepuppet feels your pain!

Posted by fp on Monday, June 21, 2010, In : quit facebook

With so many people not knowing how to get off facebook ... I thought I would try to help, as a lot of people signed up for reasons that have nothing to do with how facebook is managing data.

1) Go through and find all the emails and other contact information (AIM, twitter, blog) of your friends, and create a little database for them. You'll be surprised at how many people's emails you don't know how reliant you are on Facebook to connect you to them when you can just take some initiative and ...
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Facebook comment on CNN blog

Posted by facepuppet on Sunday, June 20, 2010, In : quit facebook

I want to share a typical Facbook comment on CNN blog

The problem is not people who are whining about Facebook, and you can say "just don't sign up." The real key are people like myself and other early adopters. We got into this early on, when Facebook was still good, and had good privacy. But they've changed their privacy policy so many times, with no option to opt out, that who knows who has control of my data anymore? I came to CNN a week or two ago and my freaking face pops up on the...

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook

Posted by facepuppet on Sunday, June 20, 2010, In : quit facebook

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook ... an article I found on Gizmodo
Facebook privacy policies keep going down the drain. That's enough reason for many to abandon it. Here you will find nine more:

After some reflection, I've decided to delete my account on Facebook. I'd like to encourage you to do the same. This is part altruism and part selfish. The altruism part is that I think Facebook, as a company, is unethical. The selfish part is that I'd like my own social network to migrate...