Why I quit Facebook

My explanation for closing down my Facebook account.

by Nathanael Boehm on 15 June, 2010

Several weeks ago I closed my Facebook account. Why? Because enough is enough. Facebook has proven to be an arrogant, irresponsible company and even though it hurts me to close my account and lose the convenience of contact with some of my friends I refuse to allow that to work in Facebook’s favour to do what they want, knowing that everybody has too much invested to pick up and leave.

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Korske Ara 28 July, 2010 at 8:50 pm

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the ’share on Facebook’ button under this article.

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Nathanael Boehm 28 July, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Ha good pickup. I’ll leave it there though – I don’t hate Facebook that much that I’m going to make it more difficult for people to share great articles like this with their friends *grin*

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