Comments | acidexia: How Facebook Deleted My Ass

acidexia

How Facebook Deleted My Ass

Mar 15, 2011 08:38

It was a quiet night at our new place. The drama was nil to zero. Or maybe it was high with the relocation and decision to quit Experiment Haywire. One may never remember. Yet I still had my Facebook network didn’t I? 5000 friends to talk to from all over the world. Every post I made sparked debate among the freaks among the freaks. I’d met over ( Read more... )

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dolston March 15 2011, 16:42:59 UTC

That is brutal. I am really sorry to hear that. I have always enjoyed your posts and insights. Guess it is a good thing I follow you on VF and LIj as well.

acidexia March 15 2011, 19:02:35 UTC

Can you message me there? They finally put my account back but exposed my private info. I refuse to post there under those terms.

dolston March 17 2011, 04:17:37 UTC

Will do!

dolston March 17 2011, 04:19:22 UTC

and fail. I still have your fanpage but I don't have you in my friends list. :/

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madamealexis March 15 2011, 18:20:51 UTC

I am glad that you mentioned being on Twitter. I'm following you there now.

I can't believe Facebook did that to you. I never used them and now I see I'm not missing anything.

acidexia March 15 2011, 19:03:00 UTC

Twitter is a lot more fun these days.

rightbloody March 15 2011, 19:54:52 UTC

Facebook isn't real life. Twitter isn't real life. The internet isn't real life. Only real life is real life!

I still love you, Facebook or not! :-)

acidexia April 27 2011, 19:55:30 UTC

You know I live here now right? I miss you!

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acidexia April 27 2011, 19:56:55 UTC

Hey there! Yes we are still looking for flyers. Trimetrick and Curiosity will both be performing at the festival too. Are you gonna make it out? That would be awesome.

mlleglass March 15 2011, 22:41:49 UTC

Suddenly it hit me. I had been placing way too much importance on Facebook. I had so many contacts who I could only reach through that website. Pictures that I would never be able to get back again. Moderator privileges. Why was I living my life on Facebook?Bingo. What really gets to me about all these social sites is how they create emotional incentives for people to do work for free. By that I mean, we all create content - comments, posts, essays, photos, videos, tags, metadata - the lifeblood for any web business - for free. We give it all to whoever owns and hosts the website - Facebook, LJ, Flickr, whoever. And in return, we get some things, like a space to interact, a nice user interface, ease of use, and the emotional satisfaction of our public interactions. Is it worth it? The only real answer has always been to keep copies of all of our content, to make sure we really still own it and to strive to create and maintain our own communities that we own ( ... )

acidexia April 27 2011, 19:58:18 UTC

"Bingo. What really gets to me about all these social sites is how they create emotional incentives for people to do work for free. By that I mean, we all create content - comments, posts, essays, photos, videos, tags, metadata - the lifeblood for any web business - for free."

Yes and yes again. I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm working more on blogging now for this very reason.