seanstickle

I killed off my Facebook account mere minutes ago. Since I have this blog, another couple of blog ideas in development, and other ways of connecting with people I care about, the Facebook account seemed superfluous for me. If you look for me in Facebook, I might still appear, but I have changed most of my information to nonsense. This is because Facebook does not allow you to delete your account, only to “deactivate” it, where “reactivating” it is done by logging back in. That sounds more like I’ve just logged off than deactivated.

I am now quite convinced that web applications should always allow you to delete your account. 37 Signals does that very nicely, I might add.

UPDATE: 03 Feb 2008. I ended up recreating my Facebook account mere days later. There are still things I want to tinker around with in the Facebook applications system.