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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.