So my facebook experiment didn’t work out exactly as planned
Posted: June 1st, 2012 | Author: Stephen | Filed under: Insights, social networks | 1 Comment »
Shortly after closing my facebook account due to privacy concerns, I got emails from a number of friends who told me they didn’t really use email anymore, or that they were having a party and it was a pain to contact me separately from everyone else.
I decided to remove my tinfoil hat and examine my reasons for leaving facebook more introspectively. While facebook surely shares, uses, stores and transmits our data for their own financial gain there is definitely a benefit to sharing the information.
Don’t get me wrong, I am still leery about what I post to the site and cringe when I see some of the personal information my friends are willing to post for everyone to see. I decided to open a new account to keep in touch with my friends and family; I guess this makes me a hypocrite. Oh well, I better stop thinking about it, I feel a draft on my head and this tinfoil hat could be back in place any minute.
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You missed a big benefit of being on facebook: your active presence there allows you to control your online image. If you are not on facebook, others control what is posted about you. You have very little ability to modify what people (potential employers, investors, etc.) find in a search. When you are on FB, you can offer a selective glimpse into who you are, or who you want people to think you are. Sharing just those bits of information that make you look like the person you want to be can be very useful in cultivating the image you desire. Perhaps a tinfoil headband is all you need…