Good by cruel internet as I press Ctrl, Alt Del on Facebook. Do not worry nor call 911 or suicide hotline. I am still alive.<\/p>\n
I decide to commit Web 2.0 suicide or in other words clear out and close my Facebook account. What brought this on was the realization how little how little control I have over privacy, account, and personal information on Facebook. An illustration on the Evolution of Privacy<\/a> on Facebook shows why I am disturbed by Facebook\u2019s privacy policy.\u00a0\u00a0By April 2010, accord to the graph, most of my Facebook information form gender to pictures could be accessed by the entire internet.<\/p>\n The privacy issue came home to roost when I surfed over to cnn.com for an article on unemployment and noted my logged in Facebook account ready for me to click likeit . It is the sharing of my account to third party sites that got me worrying. Not to mention Facebook pushing me to friend people I do not even know. Facebook and Google apps is why I turn nose up in the web 2.0 and the coming cloud computing. When one stores data on Goggle or any other web app host like photobucket and blogger , one essentially surrenders ones privacy and profile information to the hosting company. It is way I prefer this blog on my own rented server space than using an apps hosting site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good by cruel internet as I press Ctrl, Alt Del on Facebook. Do not worry nor call 911 or suicide hotline. I am still alive. I decide to commit Web 2.0 suicide or in other words clear out and close … Continue reading