pulling the plug on Facebook

[JP]

I have this odd assortment of coworkers, high school acquaintances, cousins and Chris L on my facebook.  I have no idea what to do with it.  I guess you just let it languish.

I only signed up because Scharpling was on there and then he booted me to minimize the same type of awkwardness he must experience on there.

[franks.]

I had a Facebook account and was fine letting it languish, then at my former job everyone got all Web 2.0 and started making us join Facebook groups and friend each other and I just bailed on the thing. Killed it. I was on Friendster when that started and MySpace too and thought those were OK in their time. I love Twitter in all of its stupid silliness. Social networking is whatever, but having a boss control my use of a thing like Facebook -- ugh. Now that I'm not at that job, I've been considering making another profile and making it just for me. But I still have that bad association with it.

[Gilly]

I had a Facebook account and was fine letting it languish, then at my former job everyone got all Web 2.0 and started making us join Facebook groups and friend each other and I just bailed on the thing. Killed it. I was on Friendster when that started and MySpace too and thought those were OK in their time. I love Twitter in all of its stupid silliness. Social networking is whatever, but having a boss control my use of a thing like Facebook -- ugh. Now that I'm not at that job, I've been considering making another profile and making it just for me. But I still have that bad association with it.

I'd throw Facebook down the drain under those circumstances as well.

[Fido]

I had a Facebook account and was fine letting it languish, then at my former job everyone got all Web 2.0 and started making us join Facebook groups and friend each other and I just bailed on the thing. Killed it. I was on Friendster when that started and MySpace too and thought those were OK in their time. I love Twitter in all of its stupid silliness. Social networking is whatever, but having a boss control my use of a thing like Facebook -- ugh. Now that I'm not at that job, I've been considering making another profile and making it just for me. But I still have that bad association with it.

What the hell kind of employer would make people do that? I'm having a hard time picturing this. I'd consider that crossing the line.

[Gilly]

Michael Scott? (Or David Brent for those who hate our freedoms)

[senorcorazon]

I had a Facebook account and was fine letting it languish, then at my former job everyone got all Web 2.0 and started making us join Facebook groups and friend each other and I just bailed on the thing. Killed it. I was on Friendster when that started and MySpace too and thought those were OK in their time. I love Twitter in all of its stupid silliness. Social networking is whatever, but having a boss control my use of a thing like Facebook -- ugh. Now that I'm not at that job, I've been considering making another profile and making it just for me. But I still have that bad association with it.

What the hell kind of employer would make people do that? I'm having a hard time picturing this. I'd consider that crossing the line.

Let your boss go on LinkedIn and leave the other sites to us slobs. Nothing takes the fun out of the internet like knowing that your boss sees everything you put on it.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=16121364&gt1=40000

the day this happens, im pulling the plug on FB.

[Emily]

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=16121364&gt1=40000

the day this happens, im pulling the plug on FB.

I wonder if they're served to you in the form of a Facebook application.

"Fannie Mae would like to serve you legal documents"

"Allowing Fannie Mae access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work."

"Allow!"

-Put a box in my profile
-Put a link to Fannie Mae on my profile
-Receive email updates from Fannie Mae
-Feature my profile on the Fannie Mae site

[iAmBaronVonTito]

or the Chase Bank "SUPER POKE!"

[Scot]

i'll never pull the plug, now that i am the owner of a delightful piece of joe paterno flair.

[Gilly]

The legal document thing doesn't really make sense. As long as your account is private there's no way you could be served. I guess it's worth for lawyers and collectors to check but it's not like it's going to effect anybody who doesn't leave their account open for anyone to see.

[Tim K in DC]

I'm in the mixed feelings camp as far as facebook goes. I am fond of wasting time online, and I got a facebook account in November, but within a month or so I started getting sick of it. I haven't pulled the plug, but I have been tempted.

Is there a forum thread yet for FOTs on twitter? I've found and am now following a handful that I've gleaned from Tom's list of followers, but a one-stop listing here (again, let me know if it already exists) might be helpful.

[hugman]

start it, Tim K.  And thanks for following.  And also, I love facebook, but I'm a narcissistic actor type who loves talking about himself and posting a gajillion photos.  But I don't do apps.
I'm on twitter mainly as a follower because I got no juice over there.

[yesno]

I'm already sick of Twitter.  Record time for me to realize that some new social networking thingy adds zero value to my life.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i like twitter for reading everyone else's business (go, martin!) but i dont get to log on til the end of the day and then ive got three pages worth of tweets to read.

i still dont know what happened with Tom's leg.