Last week, I got interested in an article on The New York Times about How Sticky is Membership on Facebook, stating that “…while the web site offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not succeeded in erasing their records from the network.” – They compared it to Hotel California… Kind of creepy, that song is not my cup of tea.

Today, on Read Write Web, I read that “Facebook modified its help pages to instruct users that permanent account deletion could be requested by contacting the company. ” – I for one am not thinking about deleting my Facebook account, but I do hate it when you cannot completely remove your information from a website. I think if you decide to join, you should be free to remove yourself without hassles. In a perfect world, of course…

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