Cya Facebook.
As follows:
You guys and gals should really have an option that is listed as “all of the above.” I was a late comer to Facebook and now I see no use of it other than a harboring of gossip, pointless status updates (yes, more pointless than Twitter updates) and pictures of what people are eating.
I suppose this is what you wanted to build though huh? A social networking site about how people interact with people at a distance while having no face-to-face, voice-to-voice communication. Technology will never remove that nor will it ever replace that.
Whilst I believe you will hold my data on your servers for generations to come and data mine the crap out of it, I would find it humorous if Mark Zuckerberg himself sent me a DVD copy of all my data with his signature and a note stating:
“Hey Aaron, sorry to see you go, privacy is important and we have deleted all your data and this is the only copy. Good luck on your endevors. Mark.”Not only would that be a compelling news story on any front, but it would also have me and other fellow Facebookers sleep somewhat easier at night knowing that you can actually do a hard deletion of our data. After all, it is a Brave New World we live in.
Respectfully,
-Aaron H.
Will that happen? Doubt it. If by some chance you still want to get a hold of me, I will be keeping my blog open + my G+ and Twitter account. It’s funny but it feels really good to be done with Facebook finally. I hope to still be in contact with all my friends and family members via email and phone.
-A
