I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?

I'm done with Facebook. I've never really seen the value in it (except Scrabulous, perhaps) and I am getting increasingly uneasy about handing over so much information to them. The recent Beacon debacle was revelatory. So I'm saying goodbye.

But guess what! You can't just go to the site and delete it, you can only *deactivate* it. So I wrote customer service and found out how to delete your account:

"If you want your information removed from our servers, we can do this for you. However, you need to first log in, delete all profile content, and deactivate. Once you have cleared your account, let us know, and we'll take care of the rest. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

If you have been finding Facebook increasingly invasive and decreasingly useful, please join me for a Facebook event: "Leave Facebook 4ever!" this Friday, Dec. 7 at noon.

Here's the invite ;-)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid...