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Goodbye Facebook

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I am no longer on Facebook. Well, strictly speaking, I'm no longer 'activated' - Provided I don't log in again for 14 days, my account will be deleted. I suppose it's their idea of a cooling off period. It would make sense if this was a decision made in a moment of rage. It's not though. It's something I've been considering since I took a new look at my use of social media and decided to close all those services that I don't really use.

Sick and tired of having to keep an eye on my privacy settings - and concerned by their use of data mining. The only thing stopping me was the possibility of losing touch with people. However, there is a contempt for users becoming apparent, as the zero's after the dollar sign mount up.

I don't particularly like the service, and find twitter and my tumblr blog serve my needs well - social and media. Audioboo covers my audio needs nicely. YouTube, Flickr...they are all great tools for their jobs. I see the Web as my social network - not one particular corner of it.

If you wish to delete your facebook account, click here.

Finally, here's a message supposedly from Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, back when he started the site. 

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Our Ofcom Complaint relied on Disqus comments system: were we foolish?

As you know, I have been putting alot of work into getting my Game Community's voice heard, following an outrageously ignorant broadcast on ITV's The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

We submitted a complaint to Ofcom, the UK regulator, and created a blog specifically for people to sign their support.
The complaint blog is here. Here's a screenshot I've just taken of it,

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We had already had great support, over 350 people had signed or commented on the blog, using Third Party comment system Disqus . As you can imagine then, I was pretty horrified to log in tonight to find all the comments had gone. I contacted Disqus and they claimed to have fixed it - but the comments are still not there, so I have informed them and await their response.

Here's a picture of my in box - evidencing 380+ comments


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We'll see how this turns out - but it makes me think. Should we be using third party content management systems on our blogs, when we lose so much control? We had the resources to host our own word press blog - but the easily plug in nature of a Tumblr blog and Disqus appealled.

It's been a long night of frustration over this. I'm waiting to hear from Disqus on Twitter - but they don't appear to be in any rush to fix. Meanwhile, my Game Community is full of frustrated members who don't quite know what just happened.

I'm discussing this on Buzz also - feel free to join in!

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