An old friend of mine once e-mailed me back in 2009 asking me to join it. I set up the account and then after a thought about what exactly I was doing I abandoned it.
Why I abandoned it? Its because I find the idea of social network sites questionable. We all know the stories people hijacking other peoples accounts, stalkers, surprise guests at parties and many other stories of the like that usually have "Facebook" in the newspaper headline. We all know the privacy issues raised by use of such web services. We know that every image that is upload on Facebook automatically becomes the property of Mark Zuckerberg. Its all of this plus many other reasons why I don't like social network sites. Also, because I'm not naturally the social type, so I don;t see the point of me using Facebook
But last week I got an e-mail from Facebook (I do get them regularly to incise me back, like junk-mail vouchers and catalogs.) and one of the friends listed was one I really wanted to look up for years. That was how they got me. I have begun to use it and got around to load up images for the avatar.
I can hear my past self calling me a traitor.
But I'm not stupid. I'm not going to upload any of my great work on that site. I'm not giving them away to Mr Zuckerberg for free. I'm saving them for this blog. I'm just going to write the occasional comment and maybe the occasional image (nothing great, just so and so stuff).
But all the best stuff is going up here. Nowhere else. I may post links to it on Facebook as advertising, but I want most of my visitors to stumble upon it by chance. So there you have it.
I'm on Facebook.... the shame.
