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Deleteing Facebook (pg. 8)
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Taipan
In a sort of romantic / idealistic sense I'd like to think that I can completley change who I am at any point in time, but having solid records of everything I've done in the past makes that near impossible. Google is far worse in this sense though, and I still use it. |
this is my reality.
facebook timeline made this very very difficult for me. i spent 16 hours this past week scrubbing 7 years of facebook history for this reason.
i could be a different person every week, and my history is something only really my closest relatives, lovers, friends and i need to know. |
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| knowhope |
Back from a loft party sober, nerf? Or is it the case of insomnia...
*Dr Motte & Westbam* sick hip hop house rekkid. |
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| nefardec |
| i don't sleep until 3 or 4 am usually. wish i could have gone out last night, but i was up working. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i don't sleep until 3 or 4 am usually. |
Same here.
| quote: | Originally posted by Taipan
Yea I see what you mean, but one of my issues is I don't like the idea that everything I do or say online is being recorded somewhere. And saved. I don't like having a whole lot of evidence of my past out there somewhere. Even if I know nobody will give a enough to look it up, its still there. In a sort of romantic / idealistic sense I'd like to think that I can completley change who I am at any point in time, but having solid records of everything I've done in the past makes that near impossible. Google is far worse in this sense though, and I still use it. |
Personally, I feel the complete opposite. Having a record of what I thought like and what I was like in the past gives me much more autonomy to change who I am and compare my current and former selves. Thus, I can see where I've really changed (and how), and trace back any undesirable changes so I can solve them.
Diaries are quite handy for the same reason. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Same here.
Personally, I feel the complete opposite. Having a record of what I thought like and what I was like in the past gives me much more autonomy to change who I am and compare my current and former selves. Thus, I can see where I've really changed (and how), and trace back any undesirable changes so I can solve them.
Diaries are quite handy for the same reason. |
see this i agree with. the difference with facebook is it's like letting all your friends read your diary. which ain't so cool. |
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| EddieZilker |
Thus, I keep my facebook relatively free from the dysentery of self-disclosure.
No one wants to read my diarrhea. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
see this i agree with. the difference with facebook is it's like letting all your friends read your diary. which ain't so cool. |
I guess that varies from person to person. I'm a bit of a peer-review aficionado :p |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
see this i agree with. the difference with facebook is it's like letting all your friends read your diary. which ain't so cool. |
Not it's not at all. Only an idiot would treat Facebook like their diary. You don't put up everything you think, just what you want others to see. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
Not it's not at all. Only an idiot would treat Facebook like their diary. You don't put up everything you think, just what you want others to see. |
What if you want others to see everything you think? :D |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
What if you want others to see everything you think? :D |
Then you are probably a twat. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Then you are probably a twat. |
WittyHandle sort of said that already. But that doesn't mean it can't (or shouldn't) be used that way if you don't mind being an idiot/twat ;) |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
Not it's not at all. Only an idiot would treat Facebook like their diary. You don't put up everything you think, just what you want others to see. |
ok, you're taking the metaphor of a diary a little far. the point is that 'what you want others to see' changes over time, just as 'everything you think', since obviously you have to think about what you want others to see. what timeline does is lay bare how you've changed in this way, from the beginning, which before was something that was more or less hidden by the fact that old posts were buried deeply beneath years of other posts. laying all this out for people gives people a much broader diachronic idea of who you are, which might be at odds with, as you say 'what you want others to see'. whether or not the information itself is 'personal' per se, it still feel personal because of this.
also, i've been on facebook since 2004. at that time it was only open to kids in in my school, and there were no privacy settings. plus we were younger and stupider and did not care as much about internet privacy. it felt much different at that time. people used to post their house parties and stuff in the public directory, all kinds of things.
so the result was a lot of the earliest posts are actually really personal/embarrassing/etc. |
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