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A comment on the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

Jay - perhaps that's a new feature. This conversation was posted 9 months ago. There was no delete account function at that time. – Courtney, on August 28, 2008 14:05

A comment on the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

its called the delete account button – Jay Turner, on August 28, 2008 10:08

Twitter User replied on July 18, 2008 12:26 to the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter:

I also agree. If this is not resolved soon, I may have to quit Twitter, even though I love the service. I just cannot keep policing the people who start watching me. This could be an issue for child predators, as not having the easy ability to require whitelisting people in order for them to watch you, a predator only needs find the child's twitter, start following it, and if the child is a typical youth of today, he/she is likely to just say "hey, I have a new follower! They must find my comments interesting." and now you have a situation where every minute posting from that child is available to the one trying to prey on him/her.

I'm not a doomsday type person, and I'm not willing to go overboard on "Think of the children!!!1!ONE!!!1!", but I think this is a serious privacy concern that needs to be addressed.

Lane Becker started following the idea "Perhaps there's a more positive way to express "neurotic"?" in Path 101.

judith shared an idea in Path 101 on July 08, 2008 22:15:

Perhaps there's a more positive way to express "neurotic"?

"Neurotic" seems a little harsh, especially in comparison to the other attributes, which are primarily expressed as positive traits. You could reverse the whole category and call it something like "Ability to handle stress" and have the people who previously scored high on "Neurotic" score low on "Stress Capacity"...

rivensky started following the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter.

rivensky replied on May 28, 2008 15:16 to the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter:

I agree with both of you. I think there needs to be an approval process before someone is listed as your follower. I like to keep my updates public, but I don't want to go into my list of followers and find BestPornSites. It's not okay. I am not receiving emails either when these people are following me so that I can block them right away. This should be a BIG priority for the Twitter heads.

Eridanus started following the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter.

meags replied on May 27, 2008 16:12 to the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter:

I also have this problem. I want to be able to approve people that want to follow me so I don't get all this "nmbr1grl86" and "AdultSitesList" following me. I don't even get emails about this letting me know they've started following me.

meags started following the question "some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?" in Twitter.

aholtzmann replied on April 21, 2008 14:03 to the problem "full of woes: 500 errors, browser content resizing, slow processing" in GameLayers:

The 500 Errors are server side. I'm sure the devs are working on those as I type. Do you have any other Add-ons running in your Firefox? If so, would you be comfortable trying to disable them temporarily as a test to see if it's a bad interaction between anything else and PMOG?

judith marked one of ezrakilty's replies in Sprinkles Test Company as useful. ezrakilty replied to the question "offer me tequila".

judith replied on February 29, 2008 23:41 to the question "offer me tequila" in Sprinkles Test Company:

i would like some tequila too! (hi ezra!)

judith asked a question in Twitter on February 18, 2008 18:57:

some sort of middle ground between going private and not wanting to be followed by strangers?

My twitters are currently public and I'm fine with that (I find the "this user is private" experience a little off-putting, but that's a separate issue) but I'd love to be able to go in and bulk-delete the twitter-collector people from following me rather than having to go in and block them one at a time. Any thoughts on that?

ivanoats replied on December 07, 2007 15:24 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

i'm glad you made the invite and invited all my friends to it. Facebook is now creepy, http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/

Courtney replied on December 05, 2007 21:36 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

Oh no! Do I really have to clear out every one of my friends *as well* as clearing out the profile info before I can have them remove the whole account from their servers? I can't wait for the slew of mesages from people asking why I don't want to be their friend any longer. I already got a bunch of emails, IMs and SMSs about "Courtney Skott is no longer listed as married to Lane Becker."

Hey Facebook -- you were never a part of my marriage, so stay out!

migurski replied on December 05, 2007 21:02 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

The most wonderful part about deactivating a Facebook account is the way they nag you to stick around. Whatever reason you give for bailing, they have a response:
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/facebook...

I left some comments on Simon's a while back detailing how I feel about the "omnibus" social networks like FB, MySpace, etc. - they're like an especially naggy friend, demanding 100% of your time until you leave in frustration:
http://hitherto.net/2007/10/18/facebo...

Brian Oberkirch replied on December 05, 2007 19:34 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

I zapped mine last week. Wish I could erase my data, but they won't get more.

J.O.D replied on December 05, 2007 06:08 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

You're like the Heaven's Gate of facebook.

Scott replied on December 05, 2007 05:39 to the idea "I'm leaving Facebook 4ever! Wanna come with?" in Facebook:

I just want to come in and say that It was very disconcerting to see Facebook tell me that your marriage was over. Now I know the reason...

Oh, and what kind of bullshit is "delete all of your info manually, and then we will delete your account"? That's AOL tactics, right there.