04/17/2015
While discussing fasting, juicing & colonics ( yeah I know ) with a friend, the conversation took a turn towards the topic of a social media fast. While I have taken time off of the social media grid, with great personal results, I had never contemplated a " social media colonics session "... A real deep wash of my whole experience with the service. Since the conversation, I have been wondering what it would be like to delete all my content without deleting my account and what would that mean? Isn't that one of the many purposes of facebook... to archive experiences? This train of thought got me curious. As I researched how one would go about flushing their facebook content, I realized how hard that might be.... Which lead me to this article...
" The real lesson I learned from this exercise is how difficult it is to manage one’s online persona. "
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/01/facebook_cleansing_how_to_delete_all_of_your_account_activity.html
If I had my way, Facebook would have a hard and fast expiration date for posts. I generally don’t want most of what I say hanging around longer than I’d keep eggs in the fridge. Sure, some links and videos are worth revisiting—but does anyone really care that I was...
