Why I Deleted Three Years of Updates to My Facebook Wall
* Why create and post original content that exists only for the now of everyone's News Feed? Once now is over, it might as well not exist, right?
* There's no way to efficiently or accurately tag/categorize or search any of the content I've posted in the last three years to my FB wall. If I want to quickly and easily find something from eight months ago, forget it. If I can only see 10 posts at a time, the 11th might as well be vapor.
* By creating an unarchiveable (or exportable) publishing paradigm, Facebook is using the muscle of its extraordinary user-base to reorient the Web toward a virtually unsearchable, unarchiveable "lifestream". My living breathing life is already unsearchable and unarchiveable; I'd rather have just one of those for the time being.
* Beyond the necessity of using FB for work, the only updates to my FB page I intend to make are machine-generated duplicate posts of original content happening elsewhere on the Web. If there's one way to beat FB's walled garden, it's to show FB-reloaders that there's a much wider, far more interesting world (and has been, since 1994!) in www land. Facebook is not a replacement for the Web.
* As a versatile, archiveable, searchable, extendable publishing platform, Facebook miserably fails. Farewell three years of Facebook posts -- hello, feed-generated duplicated content! It's what you're good for, FB!
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