Facebook

Posted on April 23, 2008
Tags: Living, Techie |

I signed up to Facebook quite a long time ago and initially spent a bit of time there looking around. Mainly when I was still in my previous job. Quite quickly though I lost interest and never used it again, I still get tons of crap email though like “fun”wall writing, hot potatos, drinks, purchase offers, group notifications and lots of other utterly useless stuff. Well, no more. The straw that finally did it was chatting with a friend online, getting invited to a party and then being told go look up the event details on his facebook profile instead of just telling me, it’s this Friday at Bar XYZ at 8pm, see you there. 20 clicks later and instead of checking out the event I landed in Account settings, deactivating my account and opting out of all emails.

Will anyone miss me from there? I’m sure that no. But I will definitely not miss those emails either, getting poked and receiving speed dating winks even though I didn’t sign up to any dating service. If someone I know wants to contact me they have my email, IM, blog and phone. If they can’t figure out those other contacts then I probably don’t want to hear from them anyway :-)

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3 Responses to “Facebook”

Ainkurn on April 25th, 2008 10:05 am

Facebook and MySpace are the two most useless inventions ever and the biggest scourge to society that has spawned from the internet (other than porn).
Alan on April 27th, 2008 11:29 pm

I find Linked In a pain also - continual mails from recruiters who want to be connected with me. Annoying.

I don’t know why recruiters all think that by saying “We work with Top Tier investment banks” it will cause me to go “Ooo, yeah - you must be good baby.” Every recruiter in investment banking works with Top Tier investments banks. The last one to contact me even got the name of my company wrong.
eyal on April 28th, 2008 12:40 am

Ainkurn - MySpace is horrible, I never even bothered to signup.

Alan - interesting to know about the recruiting emails. I get lots of them in the mail, but not in linkedin, from Indian IT recruiters operating in Singapore. Not quite as classy as Top Tier Banks though :-) I recently started responding to those emails telling them not to contact me unless it’s for a CEO position :-)