Facebook

I read an article in the New York Times today that was talking about Facebook. This article in particular caught my eye because, like most college students, I have a Facebook account. However, after reading this article I found out some information about Facebook that is a little unsettling.

The article dove in depth about how it's almost impossible to delete yourself off of Facebook once you already have an account. Even people who contacted Facebook to have their account deleted found that Facebook wasn't very cooperative.

Personally, I think this is a little scary. I don't plan on having Facebook forever. It's fine for now when I'm in college, but once I start a professional career I don't plan on keeping it up. It would be nice to know that I could just delete my account and be done with it. But apparently, in order for my information to be off Facebook, I would have to go through and delete every wall post, every group membership, every message. I have thousands of things on Facebook, it would take me days to delete all of that stuff.

C'mon Facebook...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=technology