Grumpy Dragon: Failbook - You can check out any time you like...

Saturday, June 18, 2011

... but you can never leave.

Rather amusingly this was presented to me after I had given my reason for deleting my Failbook account as "privacy concerns".

Stephen said...: Oh yes, the plague of bookface. It has caused more problems than it was worth. It puts an obligation on people to respond, be friends with everyone, you can't un-friend anyone, people get sacked because of comments, the list against bookface is endless. Many people throughout the world are leaving bookface but as you have found out, your data remains active. I wish I had never bothered to join bookface as a simple blog page would have been sufficient for what I wanted.; 2:29 pm
Dracunculus said...: Fortunately I was only on it for a couple of weeks, trying to track someone down I went to school with (I failed!) but as soon as I heard about their picture recognition thing that you had to opt out of I decided to pull the account anyway.

Unlike Google, who at least make some kind of effort to "Don't be evil" Failbook just seem to operate on "It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission", or more accurately "Do what that will shall be the whole of the law... so long as nobody catches you"

Here's a lovely piece of Failbook fail: http://s271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/SunshineTheHorse/fail/?action=view&current=1308472819232.jpg; 12:36 pm
Dracunculus said...: Sorry I cocked up that link:

http://s271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/SunshineTheHorse/fail/?action=view&current=1308472819232.jpg; 12:38 pm