Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

feeling justified

06Dec07

See, I was right – I am so glad I closed my Facebook account (and haven’t gone back). They don’t need to know about what I do online. I behave like someone is watching (someone always is), but I would rather it wasn’t a company bent on using that info for profit.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/12/05/facebook.sorry.ap/index.html 


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More fuel for the fire

07Nov07

Earlier I had posted about how Facebook had a major investment from Microsoft, and how I didn’t want to be part of that. So I left and ”disabled” my account. 
I am fairly certain that disabled means “I’m not here right now, but go ahead and surf my statistics, Facebook (and your partners).”
Yesterday they announced a new ad application [...]


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Well, I’m out.

26Oct07

Here is something from newsblog on WIRED today:
Breaking: Microsoft Takes $240 Million Stake in Facebook 
…Quoth Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division at Microsoft: “Unfortunately both parties have agreed certain specifics of the business arrangement and the way we’re working together we’ve decided not to disclose at this time.”   [sic]
Update 2: The call has [...]


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