A friend of mine told me that he committed Zucker-cide today. This means he deleted himself from every social network.
The only site that he has left is his tumblelog, kyleshank.com. There, he explains his departure from the web 2.0 world:
This really shocks me because I could not imagine myself taking this approach. Whenever I find a new site, I sign up for it. I could not live without Twitter.
This also amazes me because Kyle is starting a “web 2.0″ site called Persai.
I have a feeling Kyle will join Facebook again. I hope he does! Who will I tag in his pictures?
Would you ever remove your online identity like that?
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I think this is kind of counterproductive. It’s sort of like people who become teetotalers because alcohol was “controlling their life,” and therefore no longer participate in social gatherings because they might be tempted to drink… whether you obsessively overuse something or go out of your way not to use it, it’s still controlling your life.
Seems like a smarter approach would be to exercise some self control, turn off unnecessary notifications, and only log on to these sites when you need to. They’re certainly useful, and are time savers in many situations — particularly for people demographic-, psychographic-, and geographically similar to us. Like my dad always used to tell me — everything in moderation (including moderation).
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