goodbye (again) facebook

Steve Faguy has a story in today’s Gazette (and more on his blog) about how difficult Facebook makes it for users to extricate themselves from the “social-networking” site. It’s about Montrealer Steven Mansour, who has documented his efforts to delete his personal information from Facebook’s database. Why anybody would put all that personal information on [...]

if i hate facebook so much, why do i keep posting about it?

Now people are adding me as their Facebook “friends” just to annoy me.
Very droll.
A still-committed Facebooking friend emailed me this Canadian Press story about a trend I started way back in May:
Endless status updates, unwanted friends: some have had enough of Facebook
By Lee-Anne Goodman, Canadian Press
TORONTO – Mark Johnston is 27, a teacher living far from home [...]

revenge of the facebook haters

While working on a story about one of my favourite topics (revenge!; see if you can find it in Saturday’s paper), I stumbled upon a cool new add-on to Facebook. It’s called Enemybook and it lets you list your enemies on Facebook, then tell the world why you hate them.
Enemybook creator Kevin Matulet calls [...]

reformed facebook’er

Here’s an interesting Facebook primer – but obsessive status-updater Tony Pompeo is long gone.

I quit; goodbye cruel facebook

Top 12 reasons why I am about to deactivate my Facebook account, just 35 days after enthusiastically embracing the service:
12) I’m too old.
11) It’s too much like being on a reality-TV show.
10) Once it starts making the front page of paper-based content aggregators, it has lost its cachet.
9) I have a sneaking suspicion all those [...]

facebook is dead

Facebook is officially not cool anymore – I am now part of the phenomenon.
I finally succumbed to the temptation and signed up yesterday. Not to be cool but to use it as a research tool for a profile I was working on of a victim of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a [...]