Thursday, May 20, 2010

Privacy Shmivacy


Ok- so, apparently I'm not the only quitter.  It has come to my attention that there are others out there like me.  Probably not as nuts, but they are out there.  According to articles that have been sent to me by readers (yay!), websites are popping up all over the internet to promote the quitting of Facebook.  One sight, quitfacebook.com is an actual mockup of a Facebook page making fun of everything you possibly can on Facebook.  The other site, quitfacebookday.com pushes a similar message as the other site and urges all future quitters to ban together and take the plunge on May 31st.

I quit Facebook because I found it consuming too much of my time for no real reason.  Others feel this way as well but a lot of people are concerned with the privacy issue.  I won't lie, as much as like to hate on Facebook, I haven't really been following this privacy issue at all.  In fact,  you are probably better informed than I am about it.  But, many users are complaining, along with the US Government that Facebook leaves users with zero privacy.  As much as I do agree with this, it begs me to ask the question, "Why display all of your information on a 400,000,000 person network if you are looking for privacy?"