{"id":1499,"date":"2014-07-23T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:23:00","slug":"facebook-is-for-the-moment-not-for-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/facebook-is-for-the-moment-not-for-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Is For The Moment Not For Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah Facebook, can\u2019t live with it, can\u2019t live without it. Too many people are on Facebook that I\u2019d like to be able stay in touch with. <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/2014\/07\/01\/do-you-know-what-youre-revealing-online-much-more-than-you-think\/\">Jennifer Golbeck<\/a> has a point, however.<\/p>\n<p>Social media in general should be about <em>the moment<\/em>. [ref]where a moment is about a month, maybe a year if you stretch it[\/ref]\u00a0 It\u2019s a stream of consciousness, not a diary or a novel, or even a Captain\u2019s Log. Think about it &#8211; most social media is a <em>\u2018hey guys look at this\u2019<\/em> There\u2019s no need for it to become \u2018evidence that may be used against you in future\u2019 or \u2018material that supports Facebook\u2019s business model when we can work out how to monetise it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The solution is relatively simple. Go to the Timeline and erase everything that\u2019s older than three months. It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2014\/01\/facebook_cleansing_how_to_delete_all_of_your_account_activity.html\">not so easy to do<\/a>, but it is fascinating to read the absolute banality of your Facebook status updates from years ago. There\u2019s no reason for much of it to persist. Never mind Facebook, even I\u2019d use it against me &#8211; every day you live is a day you won\u2019t see again. <em>What exactly made posting that fat cat picture<\/em> such a great use of my time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As a side effect icing all that banality makes your FB timeline much tighter and cleaner. The banality is fun at the time, but the time has passed \u2018ere six months are gone. I\u2019m not so naive as to believe Facebook deletes the associated meta-data, so there\u2019s a case to be made for reducing the dross proactively. It\u2019s what a blog is for &#8211; so you can own your data. There\u2019s a difference between disseminating information and giving up the rights to it &#8211; while you can\u2019t unsay anything on the Internet, you don\u2019t have to give it away for resale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah Facebook, can\u2019t live with it, can\u2019t live without it. Too many people are on Facebook that I\u2019d like to be able stay in touch with. Jennifer Golbeck has a point, however. Social media in general should be about the moment. [ref]where a moment is about a month, maybe a year if you stretch it[\/ref]\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/facebook-is-for-the-moment-not-for-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook Is For The Moment Not For Ever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1407_facebook_DSCN2470.jpg?fit=713%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5aOO7-ob","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}