dougs's Blog

Great holiday resorts and Facebook have one thing in common; they are hard to leave. But unlike the former where it's the beauty of the place that makes one just want to stay on, with Facebook it's the policy that forces you.

With Facebook, users found it hard deactivating themselves because it was a complex and lengthy process. And it got even trickier from there. Deactivation did not mean deletion and with deactivation Facebook retained one's information on the premise that one could entertain second thoughts and decide to return! This is highly suspicious considering that once someone has made a decision to opt out of a service they ought to be released with all their belongings. One wonders what Facebook was thinking assuming all its users were fickle-minded people whose min...