This is a touch overdo, but I feel we must address the recent, temporary legal SNAFU from the Facebook company. They claimed taking ownership of all of your internet "property" once you delete your profile. Yeah, it sounds like a huge personal invasion, and it's not right, HOWEVER, loyal followers, let's not forget that once you put something on the internet, it doesn't go away. Ask the dirty politicians and the dirtier college girls hugging toilets and stealing boyfriends. Don't vocalize hateful and/or violent views on current politicians (big brother is watching), and upload wisely. I personally have a vision of a giant-mega-main-frame-server-terminal humming at the core of the earth, storing away all of the information floating around in cyberspace. I find the concept of the internet almost as baffling as the human brain, wondering where all of the bits and bytes float off to. But you better recognize the fact that even if you think your information is private, all it takes is a right click and a save, or a copy hyperlink to start spreadin the news.
Interestingly enough, Facebook doesn't intend on letting you and your information go that easily.
Check this out: http://www.stevenmansour.com/writings/2007/jul/23/2342/2504_steps_to_closing_your_facebook_account
Apparently it takes a lot more than a click and a confirmation click to free yourself from the warm, fuzzy clutches of our favorite networking site. Truth is, think of how intertwined we all our in our beloved cyberspace. Photos were posted in 2004, people were tagged, comments were left, and you got an email notification for each of these activities. In fact, you could go back and make a comment or tag Santa in the background and those people you haven't talked to in 5 years will all get an email notification of your actions, and suddenly we're back to where we started.
I guarantee that if I look back to my incarnation in the facebook world, I probably have posted some silly, questionable items. But we live and learn, and I think the best thing to live by is don't put anything you wouldn't want your momma seeing on facebook, because chances are your momma IS on facebook. Geez, Mom, get a life.
Untagging and not bragging-
The Jew
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