I now have one less distraction in my online life, although truth be told I had pretty much stopped using it, so removing my profile was not exactly a sacrifice. I’ve gone right off the idea of an integrated web platform, and would prefer my online presence to be comprised of heterogenous elements of my own choosing rather than being determined by a single company’s attitude/style/TOS.

Every time I checked my Facebook page (less and less frequently) I saw a ratio of about 10% content to 90% junk. I don’t care what kind of stupid prescribed verb is being applied by one of my friends to another for fun, and I hate the dumbass ads down the side of the page advertising shitty singles sites and 3d chat rooms. I don’t want to have people send me messages via a Facebook mailbox when I have a perfectly good email address. I’ve come to find Facebook as grating as a shopping mall with it’s samey-ness of content and style, and so I am out of there.*

I also don’t much use Twitter right now, but would like to integrate it into my blog and gmail, as a single source of status and post updates (you know, so everyone can track the stupid random thoughts I might have at any given moment).

Photos are always a pain; I can’t even manage them on my hard drive let alone online. I guess I will go with Flickr or Picasa, depending on which one has the best OS X client.

Of course I still have my grand plan to replace my current blogging platform (Wordpress) with one of my own design, sometime during the next century. I shall call it Freepress or Textplaten or Wordbum or some such thing. It shall use POST and not XML-RPC, and dispense with hideous unmanagable PHP templates. And it shall be good.

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* Or at least, as "out of there" as you can be when there is not even an option to delete your profile; only to deactivate. You know, just in case I want to come back soon. I hate that rich punk Zuckerberg…