Comment by rsbrown
15 years ago
I've really wanted to avoid joining the list of friends who have expunged their Facebook identities. This makes it very tempting to jump ship, though.
15 years ago
I've really wanted to avoid joining the list of friends who have expunged their Facebook identities. This makes it very tempting to jump ship, though.
Why? Either you are comfortable with the amount of personal information you are publishing on Facebook's systems or you are not.
If you are comfortable about the personal information you are giving them then I don't see why out-of-context IMs from years ago change how you feel about your actions.
If you're not comfortable with your own sharing then what the heck are you doing?
The temptation to leave Facebook is motivated by principle, not pragmatism. Of course whatever personal information I have submitted to websites over the years has been snooped at some point or other. That doesn't make mean we should meekly accept such behavior.
EDIT: To clarify -- I am comfortable with the personal information I have shared. Such comfort does not imply permission for the holder of that information to snoop it.
The line between comfortable and uncomfortable can change based on one's perception of the company holding the data. That perception is highly subject to the perception of the guy running it.
though, with comments like that is the data really expunged? Would you trust that your account and information is actually removed? Or conveniently archived for future use?