Privacy issues

1. I want to be in control on the data that I share
2. I am concerned about my privacy and therefore I do want to be in control of my data (or at least in as much control as possible)
3. I do not want to have anybody else making aggregations and connections concerning my profiles apart the ones that I explicitly create
4. I do not aggree that Facebook claims that everything I post/like/share on this social media platform has anything to do with my real life. Actually I am aware of my posts and likes and I was always posting keeping in mind that potentially everybody has access to this content. Facebook Timeline does not reflect my life in any sense. In order to prevent others from thinking so I at least have to be controlling all the activity going on on my timeline or delete my entire account. The latter was the better option for me.
5. Second I am a computer scientist who has some knowledge on machine learning, social media analytics and user profiling techniques and knows how to apply them. So I do know what you can do with data on Facebook and I don’t want to be subject of such action.

Friendship issues

1. 75% of my Facebook friends are not my “real” friends
2. With 75% of my Facebook friends I do not have contact
3. I can also keep in touch with my real friends without using Facebook

Focusing on more important things

1. I want to spend my time in a more productive manner rather than keeping track and correcting updates on facebook (probably made by others)
2. I do not want to use Facebook just as a tool of promoting myself (there are other social media platforms which better suite this use case such as linkedin or xing)
3. I want to spend more time maintaining my blog and less time feeding social networks with the latest gossip news
4. I am not a Social Media Expert
5. I do not want to read only filtered information that Facebook thinks is important to me (well I am aware that Google does the same but at least there is some kind of excape to search for information on other sources
6. …

This are some of my reasons for deleting my Facebook account. What do you think about this?

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Mashable has just published a post titled “Nobody Can Stop Facebook Because Nobody Understands Facebook“. There is an interesting sentence in this post:

Have the nuances of online privacy become so complex that they’re beyond the comprehension of mere mortals? I’m not saying that Facebook has any intent to cause confusion, but the complexities of the open vs closed debate and the prescriptive vs descriptive nature of the “everybody” setting effectively act to shut down public discourse.

I agree that it has not become easier to control privacy specially in the scope of Facebook. I do not really know what data which I publish on Facebook stays there, do you know? Actually when posting on Facebook I keep in mind that everything that I provide is for anybody to use. This you should also keep in mind when you act on Facebook.

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• Facebook Personalizes the Web with Open Graph (michaelfertik.com)
• How to Restore Your Privacy on Facebook (e1evation.com)
• What data does Facebook publish about you? (boingboing.net)
• Facebook privacy hole ‘lets you see where strangers plan to go’ (Charles Arthur/Guardian) (techmeme.com)
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Here is the interview of Zuckerberg:

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Few time ago Mahara UK 09, the very first conference covering the e-portfolio system Mahara, took place in the United Kingdom. It was organised by the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and the University of London Institute of Education (IOE).

The Event Report can be found here and some of the keynote slides can be found below:

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