Mark Zuckerberg personally explains why it has to be like that. Well Mark, I just didn’t like the “irrevocable” part.
February 17, 2009
February 16, 2009
Oh, you think it was because of you, innit?
I sometimes surprise, how childish I can be and also how childish other people can be too. Too bad, most of them hardly admits it. Now, since you people think that getting out from Facebook is bad for your social life, please, please use your academically trained brain to read their Terms of Service even before you sign up.But 95% of Internet user, NEVER EVEN BOTHERED TO READ THE TERMS OF SERVICE!
I left Facebook because of this & at the same time, I’m conducting an experiment/observation on Facebook and would like to see how much of my personal data is being retained after 3 months of hiatus. I thought you guys were supposed to be the degree holders, you’re supposed to be smarter than a regular self taught guy like me.
Well, I hardly read the TOS also, but at least, I read it paragraph by paragraph when I signed up with Facebook in 2005. The version back then was way different than now. I just didn’t noticed the “irrevocable” part this time. Scary shit.
Sheesh. I’m the one with ADHD. Are you like me too?
February 15, 2009
Bye bye Facebook. Good times…
Yup, I deactivated my Facebook account. Why? First and foremost, it has become an enormous amount of distraction to me. I’m getting hooked on it and I need to lay off a bit. There was not a moment at work (Yup, it’s getting that bad. My colleagues noticed this.) that I check on my Facebook account. The only way I could think of doing this is with drastic measures. And that is: by deactivating the account. I’ll probably start hearing echo of voices “why why why” in the air, it’s just getting a little bit too much to catch up with. Losing that amount of social connections from that network will be a regret, but my social connections has always been around reality & the world wide web.
I figured that I made a lot of connections by meeting people as much as I can, whether it be for good reasons or not. On the web, I make connections with knowledge & thought sharing. Twitter plays a major part in this. I do have my own personal website to post my thoughts. So, I guess, losing some connections for a while might be a good change. I know I’ll be back on Facebook, but when, I have no idea yet. So far, at this moment, it is clear to me.
It’s a good thing that Facebook retains my account to allow me to comeback, while they probably noticed the effect of Facebook Trauma & at the same time tells you, “Hey, you’ll be back. So, we’re gonna keep some of your stuff.”. Good tactic. Borderline bad for privacy. It depends on how Facebook upholds their own set of strict privacy rules while protecting our data.
November 22, 2008
Facebook’s security check
I’ve never encountered this before, but it’s kinda cool though. Facebook recently pops up a captcha box when I updated my status & found out that they send a confirmation code via SMS using the 32665 shortcode. I wonder who? Cool effort though. Reduces fake profiles & making it safer for fellow Facebooks member. Besides, who doesn’t own a mobile phone nowadays?
July 22, 2008
I EeeEeeEee ate!
Guess which browser?
It’s funny though that Facebook is not supporting IE7 and below, since Microsoft is in bed with Facebook. But it does give out a good message to all those who are still ignorant…
UPGRADE YOUR BROWSER!
*cough*
And to those who still wants to build sites using IE as a benchmark: I pray for your poor souls.