Slides from a talk I gave at the February GistMag in Sheffield on my reasons for quitting Facebook.

1. A month without Facebook Thoughts of the frog that got away Richard King http://richardskingdom.net/contact (CC-BY) purpleslog on Flickr

2. WTF?!

5. Keep in touch with family and friends

7. The benefits no longer outweighed the risks

8. I was a boiling frog!

10. Privacy became harder to manage (and then simpler again but harder to change the permissive defaults)

11. The copyright-license grab of 2009

12. Facebook became porous

13. “ You are not Facebook's customer. You are it's product . It's customers are the advertisers.”

15. Third-party applications can request access to your contact info (since withdrawn for a rethink)

16. Sponsored stories : Facebook displaying your "likes" and "check-ins" as adverts to your friends

17. Lovely faces : a dating site made from “stolen” Facebook profiles .

19. Twitter -> StatusNet?

20. Delicious -> Scuttle?

21. IM -> Jabber?

22. VoIP -> Asterisk*?

23. Flickr, Linked In, Google calendar, URL shortener???

25. Free to publish where I like & to move my data

26. Can engage with established services by syndicating

28. Visibility

29. Out of the frying pan...? CC-BY-NC net9 on Flickr