Facebook: go poke yourself
I’m super-mad at a super-poke. Was El Reg ever right. You can never leave Facebook. Wrote Chris Williams:
The funniest thing about such groups is that you can’t actually leave Facebook. Ever. The closest you can get to the escape hatch is a temporary deactivation. As Zuckerberg whispers in your ear as you grab the handle: “Even after you deactivate, your friends can still invite you to events, tag you in photos, or ask you to join groups.”
You can opt not to receive emails telling you about it, but your data cadaver is still there, waiting to be reanimated. Spooky.
Well, technically that’s true. You can indeed opt not to receive e-mails telling you about it. It’s just that nobody’s listening.
Facebook doesn’t actually heed that request. When I deleted my account, I took great care to heed the warning, and to choose not to receive any futher e-mails from Facebook. What do I need notifications for if I need a Facebook account to see what they’re about?
Within hours, I had received e-mails notifying me of a private message, that I got tagged in a note, and that someone sent me a super-poke. Even before leaving, I had told Facebook that I wasn’t interested in the damn super-poke application. So that’s twice Facebook told me to go poke myself.
The link that claims to allow me to “control” what e-mails I receive from Facebook requires… re-joining Facebook.
The spamming sods deserve Microsoft. I expect a video raspberry from Mark Zuckerman next, for falling for his phishing scam.
I’m off to update my spam filters. Facebook is now officially evil.
What is this “facebook” of which you speak?
You’re just trying to make me jealous.
I volunteer to donate my hacking skills to once and for all PERMANENTLY shutting down facebook.com.
Even if doing that means assassinating each and every single facebook developer and lighting up enough gasoline to power 1 million vehicles 1 million miles a piece.
btw your tag cloud is so totally out of control, man!
It’s so long, I can wall-to-wall carpet my entire place. That’s a novel idea for a geek’s crash pad btw (patent pending).
I need to do some work on that tag cloud, I agree.
For a start, it should display only tags with more than one post. That would slash two thirds of it. When I get some time, I’ll delve into the php and hack it a little. Perhaps I can sort out the scaling problem too, making it more like a ranking, rather than an absolute representation of post numbers (which makes only politics, media, technology and eonomics stand out and essentially renders it useless). There’s a reason it’s at the bottom of the furthest column :-)
Cool idea about the carpet, though. I’d buy one.
Oh, and if you’re going to hack Facebook, could you start by actually deleting my account, please? It offends me deeply that this isn’t possible by normal means.
Awful! At least www.b4uparty.com is honest enough to let you go if you ever chose to.