Comments on: Facebook: Starting Over

By: Facebook Crushes Privacy with Impunity | Valleywag « goldsmyth

Facebook Crushes Privacy with Impunity | Valleywag « goldsmyth — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:31:42 +0000

[...] not much: Despite widespread hue and cry in December, and even a rash of bloggers deleting and deactivating their accounts, Facebook’s growth barely paused. In fact it resumed an [...]

By: Mediactive » Facebook’s Partial Anti-Privacy Retreat

Mediactive » Facebook’s Partial Anti-Privacy Retreat — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:39:51 +0000

[...] properly. As noted earlier on this blog, I made a pretty drastic change myself a few months back: deleting my account and restarting it in a much-reduced way. For now I’ll stay with this [...]

By: Chormusiksuche

Chormusiksuche — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:32:50 +0000

Das habe ich kommen sehen :p Tollen Tag!

By: Facebook Crushes Privacy With Impunity | Defamer Australia

Facebook Crushes Privacy With Impunity | Defamer Australia — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:44:25 +0000

[...] not much: Despite widespread hue and cry in December, and even a rash of bloggers deleting and deactivating their accounts, Facebook’s growth barely paused. In fact it resumed an [...]

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:35:16 +0000

I just changed it — I assume anyone can do that.

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:22:05 +0000

Sounds like a plan. How did you change the first username? I didn’t think it was possible to change your username…

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:08:14 +0000

It took no time at all — I just change the first username and renamed the new account with it.

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:29:24 +0000

Hi Dan! How long did it take to get your same username once your first account was deleted? I was thinking about doing something similar to you–would hate for someone else to grab “my” username in between deletion and creation…

By: James

James — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:28:35 +0000

I for one totally understand Dan’s desire to delete and start over. I had a second facebook account I started under this name (an assumed one) just to see what the hoopla was all about, then started a real one and joined the Facebook party under my real name. Then this whole privacy nightmare started, and I got really annoyed — annoyed there was no way to stop Facebook from posting what I was doing and saying on the site, and no way to stop truckloads of inane, meaningless posts showing up on my feed. So I deleted my real name, and now I am much happier operating as an international and fair-haired man of mystery. I have like 10 friends instead of 700…..but the truth is that I almost never use it anymore. The whole thing seems very 2009, if I can be so jaded. I don’t miss it at all, and find that I want to reach out and spend time and connect with people more.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:39:14 +0000

I don’t know for sure, but you may have to reenable it in order to delete it. Somehow that wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the case.