{"id":1903,"date":"2007-10-31T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/10\/31\/change_of_plans.html"},"modified":"2007-10-31T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:07:57","slug":"change_of_plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/10\/31\/change_of_plans.html","title":{"rendered":"change of plans wrt Facebook&#8230;  please forgive me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I publicly declared a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/loss_of_context.html\">loss of context<\/a> with respect to Facebook.  I gave up and accepted people that I knew from the interweb, those who have been so kind to me, and many others that aren&#8217;t part of my intimate social circles.  Unfortunately, this messed up some other things and due to a personal situation, I&#8217;ve decided to rescind on this.<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems with SNSs is that it&#8217;s all about the networks, not the individuals.  By opening up the doors with my Facebook, I exposed many of my friends and colleagues to unwanted observation by people that they didn&#8217;t know and people that I couldn&#8217;t vouch for.  I don&#8217;t want my visibility to affect my friends.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part about this is that I need to now make &#8220;cuts.&#8221;  There&#8217;s nothing more horrible than having to classify &#8220;real&#8221; friends and not.  And I&#8217;m going to fuck up.  To make this somewhat better, I decided to take the advice of previous commenters and make <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=559436770\">a more &#8220;public&#8221; Facebook profile<\/a> that will be visible to anyone who is interested.  I will also accept friend requests there from people that I want to get to know.  Right now that profile is pretty empty, but I will fix it shortly.  I&#8217;ll actually play with Apps on the new profile while I&#8217;ve been ignoring and rejecting them mostly on my other profile.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize to those that I offend in this process, but I need to do this to be a good friend to those that I care dearly about.  Please forgive me for cutting you &#8211; I don&#8217;t mean harm by this but I need to separate those who I know through my professional life from those who are part of my personal worlds.  If you want to friend me on Facebook, please friend <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=559436770\">this profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I still don&#8217;t respond to FB email so please don&#8217;t write me there.  I can barely keep up with one queue so I refuse to add others to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I publicly declared a loss of context with respect to Facebook. I gave up and accepted people that I knew from the interweb, those who have been so kind to me, and many others that aren&#8217;t part of my intimate social circles. Unfortunately, this messed up some other things and due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-facebook-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}