(My prior posts on this topic: initial departure, reflections one week in, realising I miss close friends) A couple of weeks have passed since I courted controversy by leaving Facebook. After some reflection, I’ve decided to return. Here’s why: The big reason I left was the overhead of managing multiple types of contact across a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘data’
27 Jul
A tentative return to Facebook
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20 Jul
Life without Facebook: one week in
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It’s already over a week since I deleted my Facebook account: that went fast! Some reflections: The good Mostly, I’m not feeling its absence. I used to read Facebook over breakfast each morning, but I still have two other social networks (Twitter, LiveJournal), the news and many RSS feeds to keep up with… I’m hardly [...]
12 Jul
Leaving Facebook
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I’ve had mixed feelings about Facebook for some time. Some talks at the WebSci summer school — and discussions with Rene Pickhardt — have helped me crystallise my thoughts: my previous post describes just how tough it is to understand one’s online audiences, and I’ve definitely struggled with that at times, thinking “Who will read [...]
7 Jul
Taking responsibility for our data
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In her keynote today, Wendy mentioned that people are, in general, very bad at managing their data: she included herself in that category, and I certainly include myself there. Relatedly, she also touched on the issue that Mark Bernstein recently blogged: how easy it is to identify people from anonymised data, and thus how difficult [...]
