Ahh, I feel sooo much better - I just shed two skins by removing my accounts on FaceBook and MySpace.
But, what about my friends?
Ahh, please - they already know that I am here.
There is life after - you can do it - remove yourself today - take part of your life back.
wow. As much as I hate MyWaste, I don’t think I could get rid of it. It’s the only social tool my old high school friends use and the only way I keep in touch with that group of people. As for Facebook, it’s what MyWaste should have always been. I dig that one. But good for you man. Perhaps you will start the Anti-Social media movement :)
If you’re serious about getting converts, how about linking to the pages where I could remove my accounts?
Adam,
I’m not starting any sort of “movement” - just letting people know that it is okay to remove themselves and life will continue.
I would post a link as a courtesy, but alas, I am no longer a member of those sites so I don’t have access to them to get the links.
If you decide to do it, please copy the URL before you disconnect and I’ll gladly post them here.
Interesting. Did you give up because you were not gaining anything from the work you were putting into the services or did you simply feel like giving up?
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Jeffro2pt0,
Giving up?
Yeah, I suppose that you could read it that way - but only if I were trying to “work the system” as some sort of marketing system, which I wasn’t.
So, yes, I chose to disconnect.
I had 1,163 connections on LinkedIn - did it do me any good? No.
I’m a programmer and small business owner from Missouri - how could I answer the question for someone trying to fill a nuclear physics job position in Shanghai - for example.
Yeah, I couldn’t. True, there are some people using those services - but you know what? I have about 200 people listen on Twitter - a lot of whom I have met in person, and I care about them all.
I’ll take the 200 closer connections over the 1,100+ any day.
Yeah, as I wrote on Jeffro2pt0’s site, I too have given up on Facebook. I got sick of all the poking and virtual beers.
However, to give it some credit, it does work for some people. For instance my current housemate who is leaving in a week, got a job overseas through a contact in Facebook. From what I heard her salary more than doubled.
You sometimes see people on Facebook that have 300+ friends. Interestingly enough, I read a study about that which stipulated that many of them are just ‘virtual aquaintances’ rather than friends.
Yet I personally find that those very same people are also people that read women’s magazines, watch mainstream TV and listen to nothing but pop and R&B… (Sorry to those that fit that discription)
You might also be interested in this. If you believe what it says, you might have second thoughts the next time you decide to use Facebook:
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
Alas, I’m not paranoid enough to worry about it all that much.
For me, there will not be a next time - I think that I gave that story a Digg when it first appeared.
While some of the social network services may provide some benefits to the members, overall they were developed from a marketing perspective - read the privacy statement on MySpace…
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.privacy
It all reads just like any other privacy statement, until you get to the bottom…”If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.”
We all know that nobody is going to pay attention to any notice posted after they sign up. Yet, legally, that one sentence grants them the right to throw out their entire privacy statement.
Damn. I never really looked at it like that. Blame my ignorance, but I always thought they were started with good intentions. i.e. to help connect people.
I suppose when you look at it, all those social networks are a goldmine for marketing. The amazing amount of information that is stored on there re: people’s lives and behaviours is amazing.
And with disclaimers like that, they can basically do anything they want with your information. From a marketing perspective, it’s brilliant. From a moral perspective, it’s arguably evil.
Hell yeah Mike - and look into the future just a weee little bit - now I can sell you a targeted email list of anyone who ever mentioned your product - if you think spam is bad now, just wait…
I don’t look at my F-book page any more ! I feel technically it has no order ! They should hire the folks that designed the New York Times reader to design the format ! The old media may be losing steam but they still can rag a line ! Facebook is to unstructured to be used as an advertising medium the 150 million dollars in ad revenue they generate is not a great number they just have a good spin doctor !
Hmmm…does this mean no plans for a MyChingo/Mobatalk widget or application for Facebook? It would be a shame if that were the case because I have found the Facebook platform very beneficial and it would be great to have my MyChingo integrated into it.
I am not saying I am right ! These Are my opinions on Facebook ! I say approach it as an experiment ! If your apps click, great ! I just feel the site need more order to attract content !
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