Goodbye Facebook: micro.welltempered.net

@macgenie Excellent writing and expression of purpose. I’ve been reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (which came out today) and I think it might be up your alley.

@macgenie this was great! I have been thinking about how to communicate to my Facebook friends and acquaintances that I’m closing it soon.

@macgenie That is a lovely and thoughtful way to say goodbye to Facebook.

@macgenie an excellent farewell message. I hope your Facebook folks join you on Micro.blog or elsewhere. I currently don’t have any plans to stop using it, or Twitter, but I don’t post exclusively in either place, but rather post on my blog and cross-post there. I do still read both, though have been paring those down, and might stop eventually. Keeping tabs on family that are only on Facebook is an issue, though.

@macgenie great post! i probably should've written something like this when I left Facebook. It's so educational.

@macgenie Well-said/written!

I wish you had written this at the end of last year so I could have cribbed some bits from it; we covered some of the same ground, but you had some things I hadn’t thought of and some things you expressed better than I did ;-)

(I’m also curious why you didn’t add an explicit Micro.blog “action item” to the list at the end, after leading with how sane and just Micro.blog is in comparison to Facebook.)

@smokey Thanks for the kind words.

I didn't want to try to pitch Micro.blog in the same breath while explaining why I'm quitting Facebook. I think I gave enough info for people to draw their own conclusions as to why it's preferable. I also didn't want to appear as if my feelings about Facebook are based on any notion that Micro.blog is a competitor and I'm just trashing the competition.

But I'll do some follow ups before I close the account and probably rustle up some free months to offer to anyone interested. I'm still a marketer. 😇

@macgenie That makes a lot of sense, especially if you plan to do follow-ups; thanks.