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nathan — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:32:44 +0000

The after effects of the “no facebook” stigma

nathan — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:10:58 +0000

It’s coming up to four weeks since I decided to ditch the Facebook thing, for good. The idea of living aspects of social psychology in virtual space doesn’t really appeal to me. So I don’t have any plans to return to it.

Some interesting things.

No one remembered my birthday because I had no facebook. Except for three people who don’t even live in Brisbane. Not including family. ;o
Some people thought I deleted them, and were visibly disturbed when they questioned me in person. (sad)
My idle time (which was facebook time) is now replaced with more productive and meaningful things. Like work.
I am now socially dead to a lot of people, even though they have my number and email. If you really want to not abuse the social convenience of Facebook to stalk my life, then you can call or email anytime. But don’t go out of your way, really.

Although it could be a good tool to shape your whole ‘image’ to a social mass, in the end it’s better to do this in person. It was fun to explore at the start, and to watch it grow, however I believe it can also be a mass social conditioning tool which will threaten the privacy and individuality of the future, for a lot of people.

The tricky thing is how to incorporate the business aspect of my life into Facebook, when I refuse to make an account. A twitter is fine too. ;o

New Stuff

nathan — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:01:59 +0000

Over the past yearish, I’ve put a bit of energy into establishing business ventures with my computer skillz. So far so good! I think it’s going to turn into a full time thing, and I’ll look after myself with this.

Although a website to web-ify it all is in the works, the domain is over at http://dreamfast.com.au/ Websites, software, etc

Only last week I made the change to separate all the business / personal stuff. OS X Lion makes that a lot easier, with superior fast user switching! Which does help a lot. I recommend this to anyone starting a similar thing.

No More Facebook

nathan — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:40:25 +0000

Expect more paranoia and security related posts of this nature! Soon I’ll make everything sapwell.net SSL, and post some nice things on how to be safe in case they are watching your internet traffic.

But point is, no more Facebook. It’s stupid. I hope more people follow along. Remember there is always the safe and easy way!

Well, worst case is I’ll make one, but just have it as a portal to other things I am doing on the web. Since people still seem to like to use it for some reason.