New article in News (Regular musings and updates): Why I Left (but re-joined) Facebook
(NOTE: I eventually reactivated my Facebook account in order to re-instate the 2214 fan page. The original rant is left intact to reflect my opinions at the time)
I set up a Facebook account in the spring of 2009, deleted it once, came crawling back a few months later, and have been struggling with whether or not to hang on to it. As someone who wants to market to the broadest audience possible, it seemed like an important tool.
Well, it didn't quite turn out that way. A lot of irrelevant and generally uninteresting material was sent my way during my time there but my main reason for finally leaving was the fact that my personal information was being abused by pseudo-applications. Spam SMS messages started appearing on my phone, which, to be fair, may not have started from Facebook apps but there were very few sites that had my number.
Political discussions among some of my friends had devolved into derogatory hate speech and insults. Religious messages were everywhere. People are certainly en...
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