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		<title>Social Networks are Time Wasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to start the year on target with productivity objectives. I am going to get rid of all Web 2.0 accounts that are simply not adding any value to my online presence. I&#8217;ll start with Jaiku. Well it&#8217;s not that easy to remove one&#8217;s account. I obtained a dreaded 504 Gateway Time-outwhile deleting my account. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to start the year on target with productivity objectives. I am going to get rid of all Web 2.0 accounts that are simply not adding any value to my online presence. I&#8217;ll start with Jaiku. Well it&#8217;s not that easy to remove one&#8217;s account. I obtained a dreaded <a href="http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E504.html" target="_blank" title="504 gateway Time-out">504 Gateway Time-out</a>while deleting my account. That&#8217;s precisely the point I&#8217;m trying to make. Time waster.<span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span"> 504 when dialog fails</span>. <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/" target="_blank" title="thinkgeek">Nice thinkgeek t-shirt idea</a>. </p>
<p>Why would I need a service that cannot get rid of me? Like <strong>Woody Allen</strong> once said (and I&#8217;m paraphrasing you purists (it&#8217;s from <a href="http://www.geocities.com/ogranovski/woody.html" target="_blank" title="Woody Allen Quotes">Annie Hall</a> but Woody got it from <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx" target="_blank" title="Groucho Marx"><strong>Groucho Marx</strong></a>)) <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">why would I be part of an online service that would have me as a member</span>? Just kidding. I like enriching content and that has nothing to do with socializing, that&#8217;s the heart of the problem. I think <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=733287492" target="_blank" title="Facebook">facebook</a> is immature (my ex-coworkers are all there). I dig <a href="http://digg.com/users/reevester" target="_blank" title="reevester on digg">digg</a> because it&#8217;s offbeat. </p>
<p>Why socialize online when I don&#8217;t even socialize in real life? Why make this anonymous experience even more shallow? </p>
<p>See how deleting a social network account can be thought provoking? I should create an account in all of them just for the sake of discussing their deletion. It&#8217;s simply <a href="http://del.icio.us/" target="_blank" title="del.icio.us social bookmarking">del.icio.us </a> Hey come to think of it, I already have an account in the most popular social networks&#8230; Oh yeah that was the initial point.</span></p>
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