It wouldn’t otherwise be worth a mention, but if you tire of Facebook enough to want out, instead of easily deleting your account they allow you to ‘de-activate’. If you’re brave enough to switch off, I’ll admit I was slightly reluctant to make the click – You’re informed that you can ‘re-activate’ at any time.

Friends are still able to invite you to events, there might be an important message in your inbox, or one you’re about to receive. Thanks for offering guys, but I still want out. I’m reluctant to have that much personal information stored when I don’t know who has access to it, namely advertisers.

Facebook seem to make it deliberately hard to find a way to delete your account, I spent a couple of hours deleting my friends and personal information. This morning though, I found this link:

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

That’s a little easier. Now I’m free of social networking, I have piece of mind and more control over my presence on the internet. Don’t even get me started on Twitter.

I hope you might also consider similar attack. If you really want to put something out there – Create your own content, host your own blog, switch things up a bit and help shape your own web 2.0. It’s like growing your own vegetables.

Update, 10th June 2010: Really Whale actually has a twitter account. Still, watch the video above because it’s pretty spot on.

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