In response to the continual antics of Zuckerberg and Co, today was the International Kill Your Facebook Day (or variations upon that theme).
Friday 14th May 2010
Thursday 06th May 2010
Okay everybody, calm down. CALM DOWN I SAID! Everything is going to be okay, just CALM DOWN!!! Repressed memories from 2007/08 flooding back! CALM DOWN EVERYONE! But I don’t think I can sir. AAAARGH!
Tuesday 04th May 2010
Soylent Greenbes: You are not Facebook’s customer. You are the product that they sell to their real customers — advertisers. Forget this at your peril.
Alas, forgetting still doesn’t give you the ability to permanently delete your account and have Facebook forget you. Which is a shame because in Soviet Russia, Facebook forgets you.
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Facebook’s constant terms of service changes almost seem designed to test the limits of what they can get away with, much like Microsoft in the 1990s. This is the creepiest part of their proposed privacy policy:
Wednesday 10th March 2010
According to @sing_twop_1000 who informed me this afternoon, I’ve been using Twitter now for three years. That’s a good thing… right?!
Saturday 21st November 2009
Hot on the heels of my comment on someone’s tweet about Facebook (wow, wasn’t that an internet sentence) one of my friend CalgaryGuru’s tweets got me thinking about FriendFeed.
Just pulled Facebook out of my FriendFeed… Stuff I post on FB doesn’t always make sense as a twitter tweet. Besides, FF is depricated.
(emphasis added)
Friday 20th November 2009
@jowyang commenting on #smba:
Many attendees say they don’t trust Facebook. Concerned about how their data is used, permissions, and connecting personal with work
Tuesday 03rd November 2009
It seems Mark Zuckerberg has started poking fun at the folks who adamantly hate the latest in a string of new Facebook changes.
Tuesday 27th October 2009
So Facebook has made a bunch of changes, presumably as a result of buying out and killing FriendFeed, which has resulted in trillions of users forming a group demanding they change back, which has made headlines in traditional media outlets, and that Facebook management will ignore. People will learn to live with the downgraded site, and will continue to use it because it’s where all their friends are, and Facebook management will continue to give out data to third parties to perform data mining without assurances of privacy while cackling "fools!" all the way to the bank.
In other news, grilled cheese sandwiches are best made with bread instead of soggy cardboard, an ejector seat works best when there’s an opening in the cockpit roof, and The Bird is The Word!
At this point the only reason I keep my Facebook account open is for people to contact me who still use it. Despite Facebook’s envy of the service the two are not broadly equivalent, but most of the people I care about are on Twitter now anyway.
Saturday 24th October 2009
Since I switched to Opera 10 as my primary browser when I got fed up with Firefox’s constant crashes and sluggish performance (a topic for a future post) I’ve started noticing ads again. Need to set up some filters now that I don’t have AdBlock Plus any more! Anyway, I saw this advertisement on a news site which redirects to the gargantuanly-titled Australian Interactive Media Industry Association article that’s talking ’bout my generation, titled Getting Inside Gen Y.
