{"id":922,"date":"2010-05-23T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-05-23T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:28:58","slug":"i-deleted-my-facebook-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"I deleted my Facebook account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a weak moment several years ago I let a friend talk me into signing up for Facebook.\u00a0 After a few days I realized that Facebook was like the high-school social whirl; petty, childish and shallow.\u00a0 As a consequence I did very little with my account.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been much news of Facebooks poor control of members information.\u00a0 Just Google &#8220;Facebook Privacy&#8221; and you&#8217;ll get over 2,000,000 hits regarding the problem.\u00a0 It is scary and I feel sad for so many people who are deeply involved in Facebook.\u00a0 Maybe they don&#8217;t care about privacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For a good summary, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/business.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978246088\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0 May 31st has been designated <em><strong>Quit Facebook Day <\/strong><\/em>and you can learn how to delete your account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a follow-on, Facebook is now deleting people&#8217;s posts (on FB) concerning privacy and links to the page (above) concerning how to delete your account.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s up to you, but you won&#8217;t be finding me on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a weak moment several years ago I let a friend talk me into signing up for Facebook.\u00a0 After a few days I realized that Facebook was like the high-school social whirl; petty, childish and shallow.\u00a0 As a consequence I did very little with my account. Recently, there have been much news of Facebooks poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curent-events","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}