A Flemm Blog

So, yes. I have jumped on the delete Facebook bandwagon. I have officially rid myself of The Facebook.

I haven't touched the thing in months, and I had already disabled all email alerts, so it's as if I had already deleted it. So you ask, @"Then why remove it at all? Why not just leave it there in case there's some need for it?". This is a logical question, so I'll answer it.

My justification until a few days ago has been that it acts as a secondary contact list (which has come in handy on a number of occasions), giving me access to information about people that I don't have in my MobileMe contacts. As I said, this was a good enough justification for me until a few days ago. So, the question becomes, @"What heppened?".

Well, it's simple. Halyna showed me that she could look at all photos containing the two of us. @"Okay ... this is nothing new (to the rest of the world, i suppose) what's wrong with that".

Well, I was shown pictures of myself that I hadn't taken, I hadn't posted, and I hadn't signed off on. I had no idea these pictures even existed. Jimmy-Bob put pictures of me online, and they've been 'tagged' as 'me', so now they can be searched.

Woah!!! I don't like that. I don't like that one bit. I want to control my own online identity. I don't let other people post on my Blog, toot on my Twitter account, or post photos to my Flickr. I want to have control over what people find if they want to know about me. Image is important, and people, you're losing control. When some guy at some party I've gone to has control over my online identity, I cannot be comfortable.

Tiff, Brandon, that is a reason to rid yourselves of The Facebook. Try again with your explanations. As I recall, Tiff's reason was @"I'm just so addicted to it"; and Brandon's reason was @"I just don't even like it ..." LAME.

UPDATE:

I've just noticed that all of my quotations have an '@' in front of them. ie)

@"This is a quotation"

That's hilarious. It's because of strings Objective-C. I'm chuckling.