2 posts tagged “facebook”
It is now official. I have deleted EVERYONE off my Facebook account. I have deleted/deactivated/removed (Because I have no idea what the hell) ALL applications, mini-feeds, etc as well. My Facebook account is now deactivated properly.
I said properly because in a spur of the moment some months ago, I deactivated my account leaving everything and everyone intact. Then of course it dawned on me that was stupid because I was still there. I am still on people's friends list and I can still view their feeds/news/status updates etc.
I did not visit Facebook all that much anyway. I was swamped in various invites for applications, scrabulous games, etc. I like my Facebook friends. They are also largely, my twitter friends. I just have no desire to hang out on Facebook, join various networks, etc. I just prefer to remain fairly anonymous online. If, for example, I decide to join a school or work related network online, it will be totally separate from my online social-networks that I have carefully cultivated over the past few years.
Why?
The reason is simple. Employers google you. The chances of being found out that I spend countless hours online tweeting, seesmic-ing, Yahoo-ing, blogging and the like are great if I were to link all of my online profiles with my real life.
That is not to say I am not who I am in real life. Far from it. I just believe there is such a thing as TMI. Be it on or offline, I do like to keep some aspects of my life unknown to the rest of the world.
After I typed the title of this post, I realised thelmabowlen has a blog with the same name. But it fits.
I just got my uninterrupted internet access tonight after I got home from the madness that is driving and (window) shopping at the weekend. So I decided to visit some people's blogs and links. One of the many blogs on my friends list showed a link for Facebook and I recall getting an invite to join. So I went there and immediately also remembered I was Tagged not long ago although it does seem eons now. I checked my friends list on tagged and saw that very few of them ever went there anymore.
A friend quipped, "You have to be everywhere even online, don't you?" when I told him about my new blog address. He has kept the same blog, at the same address for years. He abandoned it, more like. At another friend's and my behest, he re-opened the blog and updated it, until recently. He informed me that he is busy with a new project and could not possibly keep up two blogs.
Much earlier, before I went tagging, facebooking, etc, I visited my flickr page and caught up with my friends' photos. My busy friend with the new project posted one new photo that someone sent to him from Atlanta. I suppose opening an email and uploading the attachment in order to share with his friends is not too much work after all.
I checked my hotmail earlier and saw that I had SPAM... One of which is an invite to B4UParty from someone I do not even know. Or maybe I did know him at some point eons ago. Who knows, who cares?
I might have to re-think about my web presence and joining these crazy sites because, really, where do I have time to be networking with teenagers and strangers when I can hardly keep my various blogs updated given my poor connection problems?
Of course I am not saying I am going to be offline because that would be most uncivilised. I am just thinking about being... overstretched. (Is that the world I am looking for?)
