Hello you might have found me via the LA Times article where I was interviewed by David Sarno. He hit the nail on the head with his article but I wanted to elaborate on my thoughts. Below is a quick “stream on conscious” reasoning. You can see my final post David wrote about here: http://www.facebook.com/everydream
Since March I have slowly (but surely) been deleting every posts, check-in, tag, like, and photo from my Facebook. It has taken hours, nay days, to delete my presence on Facebook. I am not talking about “deactivating” my account – I mean 100% deleting my Facebook footprint. The plan was for me to delete everything I could and then post a short write-up about Facebook and why I quit. This was easier said than done. I won’t go into much detail but you cannot delete everything, Facebook won’t let you. And things you believed were deleted, sometimes they come back. But that is a story for a different time. This post is about WHY I quit Facebook. It is based on a somewhat paranoid vision of the future and the upcoming Initial Public Offering of the company who is using YOU for profit.
Let’s begin.
