Facebook = Dictatorship

I do not often get in to the habit of badmouthing companies. However, I've recently been aware of the privacy concerns that many people have echoed against facebook. These are legitimate concerns. What it all boils down to is trust and recently facebook has basically been spitting in the face of the people who have trusted the site for years. I won't go in to too much detail because you can read about this elsewhere from countless sources on the Internet.  I even overheard a lengthy discussion about it on NPR radio a few days ago.

However, I originally accepted what facebook was doing. I started treating the service for what I thought it had become and treated everything that I had on there as being out in the open. I deleted my personal page (with trial and error) and later created a dummy account to help others find my web projects.

A week later, a came across an article that Leo Laporte had tweeted about. A radio station who had expressed their privacy concerns about facebook on facebook had their page disabled by facebook. Being an amateur content provider, this disgusted me. What major service in the history of the Internet has ever stooped so low as to ban users for bringing up concerns about said service on said service? Myspace wouldn't even care about this shit. They do what they do, and although they are similar, I have never felt the need to delete my account from there. I trust them in some capacity. Facebook has proven to me that they are nothing more than a power hungry organization that is not unlike the Chinese government (minus the whole execution thing because of those pesky U.S. laws).

In an attempt to inform the people that I had friended on facebook that I would likely be deleting my account, I linked to the article above and explained why. The message was promptly deleted by facebook. In return, I promptly deleted the last account that I will ever have there.