1. A month without Facebook Thoughts of the frog that got away Richard King http://richardskingdom.net/contact (CC-BY) purpleslog on Flickr 2. WTF?! 3. Why did I quit Facebook?

http://richardskingdom.net/why-i-quit-facebook 4. Why did I join?

• Peer pressure 5. Keep in touch with family and friends 6. Social benefits outweighed privacy risks (at the time)

Why did I quit?

• PrivacyControl over privacy decisions 7. The benefits no longer outweighed the risks 8. I was a boiling frog!

9. The changing Facebook

More info wasmade availableto more people over time 10. Privacy becameharder to manage(and then simpler again but harder to change the permissive defaults) 11. Thecopyright-license grabof 2009 12. Facebook becameporous 13. You are not Facebook's customer. You are it'sproduct . It's customers are the advertisers.

14. Facebook news for Jan 2011

Memorable Stories : your deleted status updates may not really be deleted. 15. Third-party applications canrequest access to your contact info(since withdrawn for a rethink) 16. Sponsored stories : Facebook displaying your "likes" and "check-ins" as adverts to your friends 17. Lovely faces : a dating site made fromstolen Facebook profiles .

18. Life after Facebook

Reclaiming control over personal data publishing

• Is this an illusion? Once it's out there...

Going it alone

• Facebook -> Diaspora? 19. Twitter -> StatusNet? 20. Delicious -> Scuttle? 21. IM -> Jabber? 22. VoIP -> Asterisk*? 23. Flickr, Linked In, Google calendar, URL shortener???

24. Life after Facebook

Advantages

• Free to publish what I like 25. Free to publish where I like & to move my data 26. Can engage with established services by syndicating 27. Improving my skills (pass theshark repellent !)

Disadvantages

• Maintenance 28. Visibility

29. Out of the frying pan...? CC-BY-NC net9 on Flickr