Deleting Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn- Accepting Life

This Thanksgiving as I prayed to God for my family– I prayed to him to give me more time with my loving family. An insight or revelation struck me-

I was spending more time with my computer than with my loved ones.

Is Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn essential to living? No

I have 1700 followers on Twitter

1100 “Friends” on Facebook, and 9429 “Connections” on Linkedin

Deleting Facebook was an emotionally wrenching decision- see this screenshot- I tried to download all my account- family photos (320 mb) but connection kept breaking-

so I had just deactivate and not delete the account. You win, Zuckenberg

How to-

Right Hand Top Corner —-Account Settings- Deactivate Account

After Facebook de activates your account- it mocks you by saying this this in YELLOW “

Your Facebook account has been deactivated.

To reactivate your account, log in using your old login email and password. You will be able to use the site like you used to.

We hope you come back soon.”

I go back to Facebook to download all my family photos before final deletion (and not just de activation)- I get this message

It may take a little while for us to gather all of your photos, wall posts, messages, and other information. We will then ask you to verify your identity in order to help protect the security of your account.

Yeah Yeah Mark.

One Down Two to Go

Deleting Twitter

Twitter was disappointingly easy-

Go to http://twitter.com/settings/account

At bottom left you see Deactivate my account.

Twitter tries to scare me now-

Is this goodbye?

This action is permanent.

Are you sure you don’t want to reconsider? Was it something we said? Tell us.

Before you deactivate your account, know this:

This action is permanent: account restoration is currently disabled.
You do not need to deactivate your account to change your username. (You can change it on the settings page. All @replies and followers will remain unchanged.)
Your account may be viewable on twitter.com for a few days after deactivation.
We have no control over content indexed by search engines like Google.
If you’re creating a new account and want to use the same user name, phone number and/or email address associated with this account, you must first change them on this account before you deactivate it. If you don’t, the information will be tied to this account and unavailable for use.
Okay, fine, deactivate my account (thats the button)

I clicked the Okay fine Button.

One more pop up-

Re-enter your Twitter password to deactivate @DecisionStats.

Ok Done-

Twitter tries to scare me again —-

You deactivated your account.

Account restoration is currently unavailable. Here is the message you agreed to before deactivating your account:

his action is permanent.

Before you deactivate your account, know this:

This action is permanent: account restoration is currently disabled.
You do not need to deactivate your account to change your username. (You can change it on the settings page. All @replies and followers will remain unchanged.)
Your account may be viewable on twitter.com for a few days after deactivation.
We have no control over content indexed by search engines like Google.
If you’re creating a new account and want to use the same user name, phone number and/or email address associated with this account, you must first change them on this account before you deactivate it. If you don’t, the information will be tied to this account and unavailable for use.

So Long Twitter, I gotta spend more time with my offline family okay.

And probably anyone trying to do sentiment analysis on my twitter feed for social media analytics now has an incomplete data point (hehe)

Last One- Linkedin 9349 connections are valuable- I was thinking of auctioning this on E Bay but they kicked me out.

So I just go for deletion.

I spend 10 minuted looking for the delete account button-this is getting a bit annoying now.

I finally go to

http://help.linkedin.com/

Item 4- Closing my Account-

Linkedin neither scares me nor emotionally coddles me – This is what is says-

Closing Your Account

How do I close my account?

Log into the account you wish to close.
Hover your cursor over your name in the top right of your home page and then click “Settings”.
Click on “Close Your Account” under Personal Information.
Select a reason for closing your account.
Click on “Continue”.

Members should only have one LinkedIn account. Multiple accounts can prevent the ability to accept an Invitation. Closing additional accounts should resolve this dilemma. Prior to closing any secondary accounts:

Inventory all connections and identify any that may be missing from the primary account you wish to keep.
Send Invitations to those connections missing from the primary account.
Update any profile information that maybe on other account profiles.

So I try exporting all 9300 + connections using http://www.linkedin.com/addressBookExport

I dont think I will send that many invites again- but some of these people have been good to me ( 18 of them even wrote recommendations- which are non exportable it seems)

I check my downloaded csv file- yup all 9379 email addresses are there.

Final round-

Update- Linkedin does NOT get deleted. I get this-

Your close account request must be processed by customer support for the following reason:

You have more than 250 connections.

You will receive a confirmation email from customer support indicating that they received your request to close your account.

The account that customer support will process for closure is below:

Ajay Ohri
9,429 Connections
16 Recommendations
ohri2007@gmail.com (primary address)

and the email says

Member Comment: ajay ohri

11/24/2010 23:10

Member ID: 6691344
Member Name: Ajay Ohri

The member has attempted to self close this account and was unable because:

The member has a large network of connections to close. Please close during non peak hours.

Please confirm with the member when his or her account has been successfully closed.

So long people- you know where to find me- on this blog (and some on skype).

And if you dont’ know how to find me on my blog-

Happy Thanksgiving-and kill that Turkey 🙂

Demi Lovato Deactivates Her Twitter Account (shoppingblog.com)
John Mayer Deactivates His Twitter Account (shoppingblog.com)
New Facebook privacy tip: ‘Super-logoff’ (cnn.com)
LinkedIn CEO: We’re adding a new user every second (money.cnn.com)
Stephen Fry says ‘bye-bye’ to Twitter … again (cbc.ca)
Making Friends: LinkedIn vs. Facebook vs. Twitter (e1evation.com)

Tale of Two Analytical Interfaces

Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor^[1]) is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae(translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness). The principle is popularly summarized as “the simplest explanation is more likely the correct one.

Using a simple screenshot- you can see Facebook Analytics for a Facebook page is simpler at explaining who is coming to visit rather than Google Analytics Dashboard (which has not seen the attention of a Visual UI or Graphic Redesign)

And if Facebook is going to take over the internet, well it is definitely giving better analytics in the process. What do you think?

Which Interface is simpler- and gives you better targeting. Ignore the numbers and just see the metrics measured and the way they are presented. Coincidently R is used at Facebook a lot (which has given the jjplot package)- and Google has NOT INVESTED MAJOR MONEY in creating Premium R Packages or Big Data Packages. I am talking investment at the scale Google is known for- not measly meetups.

(the summer of code dont count- it is for students mostly)

(but thanks for the Pizza G Men- and maybe revise that GA interface by putting a razor to some metrics)

GA vs Facebook Analytics

The Deal with the Devil (politics.ie)
Google Analytics: Goodbye Site Overlay, Hello In-Page Analytics (searchengineland.com)
Google Instant Page Previews Wreaking Havoc On Web Analytics (seroundtable.com)
Designing Your Blog with User Interface in Mind (gabrielcatalano.com)

Who searches for this Blog?

Using WP- Stats I set about answering this question-

What search keywords lead here-

Clearly Michael Jackson is down this year

And R GUI, Data Mining is up.

How does that affect my writing- given I get almost 250 visitors by search engines alone daily- assume I write nothing on this blog from now on.

It doesnt- I still write what ever code or poem that comes to my mind. So it is hurtful people misunderstimate the effort in writing and jump to conclusions (esp if I write about a company- I am not on payroll of that company- just like if I write about a poem- I am not a full time poet)

Over to xkcd

All Time (for Decisionstats.Wordpress.com)

Search	Views
libre office	818
facebook analytics	806
michael jackson history	240
wps sas lawsuit	180
r gui	168
wps sas	154
wordle.net	118
sas wps	116
decision stats	110
sas wps lawsuit	100
google maps jet ski	94
data mining	88
doug savage	72
hive tutorial	63
spss certification	63
hadley wickham	63
google maps jetski	62
sas sues wps	60
decisionstats	58
donald farmer microsoft	45
libreoffice	44
wps statistics	44
best statistics software	42
r gui ubuntu	41
rstat	37
tamilnadu advanced technical training institute tatti	37

YTD

2009-11-24 to Today

Search	Views
libre office	818
facebook analytics	781
wps sas lawsuit	170
r gui	164
wps sas	125
wordle.net	118
sas wps	101
sas wps lawsuit	95
google maps jet ski	94
data mining	86
decision stats	82
doug savage	63
hadley wickham	63
google maps jetski	62
hive tutorial	56
donald farmer microsoft	45

Ways of Optimizing Blog in Search Engines (cash-bandit.com)
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 23, 2010 (searchengineland.com)
Do You Want Increased Income? Chango Could Be The Answer (wassupblog.com)
Domain.com Announces Industry’s First Natively Integrated Browser Domain Search (prweb.com)
Why Keyword Research Matters and Link Building Doesn’t (danlew.com)
Six rules for producing optimised web content (econsultancy.com)
Consumer Watch Dog Group Files Complaint with the FTC Regarding Data Mining, Profiling Algorithms – Privacy With Health Information At Risk With Insurer and Employer Usage (ducknetweb.blogspot.com)
Find the Question to your Yahoo Answers! (seomoz.org)

Google Street View shows Gladiators fighting

Go to http://goo.gl/maps/vFZP

Click on Street View -Rotate till you find the gladiators

1. Go to Google maps.

2. Go to 35 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

3. Click street view.

4. Turn the view around.

Another breach of gladiator privacy by Google. Hrrumph.

Great App for Online Sketching

Here is a great app for sketching online.

Its on at http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

and fabulous graphical control on browser – it took me ~ 3 min for this sketch and it’s really much paint than on my desktop

Why do bloggers blog ?

Xbox (revision 1.0) internal layout. Including... — Image via Wikipedia

Step 1 is to create internal motivation to create a blog in the first place

Step 2 is to find what to write

Reasons Bloggers Blog-

Basic -Ranting

Examples- I hate Facebook Platform team treats me badly with waits, and breaks my code.

SAS Marketing wont give me a big discount to make me look good in front of my boss.

Companies wont give me their software for free- even though I will use it to make money (and not play X Box)

I want my vendors to be FOSS but my customers to switch to SaaS.

Google wont do this- Apple wont do that- Microsoft wont do those.

Revolution would give me 4 great packages but not the open source for RevoScaler (which only 300 people would understand in the first place)

Safety-

I better kiss the Professor and give a Turkey for dinner, as he sits on my thesis committee.

I will recommend Prof X’s lousy book in the hope he recommends my lousy book as a textbook too.

It is safe to laugh when the boss is making a joke-I should comment on her corporate blog, and retweet her.

Belonging-

I belong to this great online community of smart people. Let me agree to what they say.

I really believe in EVERYTHING that ALL the 2 MILLION members of the community have to say ALL the TIME.

I belong to this online community because all my friends are on my computer.

4 Egositic

My blog page rank is now X plus delta tau because of sugary key words (2004)

My technorati numbers rise (2005)

I was once on Digg (2007)

I have Z * exp N followers on Twitter and even more on Facebook (2008)

My Klout is increasing on twitter, My stack overflow reputation ‘s cup floweth over. (2009)

My Karma on Reddit is more important than my Karma in real life (2010)

Self Actualization-

I got time to kill- and I think I may learn more, meet intersting people and discover something wandering on the internet.

All those who wonder are not lost- Wikiquote

I got a story to tell, poems to write, code to give away. A free Blog is something a Chinese , an Iranian and a North korean really really know what the value is.

But after all that, WHY Do Bloggers Blog?

Because we are still waiting for Facebook to create the Blog Killer.
Its better than saying I am unemployed and a social loner
Reddit Karma feels good. Any Karma of any kind.

View this document on Scribd

Calling BS on Klout and the Concept of Influencers (mizzinformation.com)
Overheard on #Blogchat: The Next Level (@tc_geeks) (blogworld.com)
Why Facebook and Twitter Are Not Replacing Blogging (dannybrown.me)
Report: Blogging Falls to Facebook and Twitter (socialtimes.com)
Facebook and Twitter have become indispensable to bloggers (venturebeat.com)
Whaddya Mean-Blogging is Dead? (janetfouts.com)
(VIDEO) Microblogging vs. Blogging: Is There a Battle? (blogher.com)

Reputation on Social Networks

Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility — Image via Wikipedia

Classical Economics talks of the value of utlity, diminishing marginal utility if the same things is repeated again and again (like spam in an online community)

StackOverflow has a great way of measuring reputation – and thus allows intangible benefits /awards -similar to wikipedia badges , reddit karma. Utility is also auto generated like @klout on twitter or lists memberships and other sucessful open source communities online including Ubuntu forums have ways to create ah hierarchies even in class less utopian classes.

Basically it then acts as the motivating game as the mostly boy population try to race on numbers.

in Stack Overflow- you can get buddies to upvote you and basically act as a role playing game too.

—–From http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation

To gain reputation, post good questions and useful answers. Your peers will vote on your posts, and those votes will cause you to gain (or, in rare cases, lose) reputation:

answer is voted up	+10
question is voted up	+5
answer is accepted	+15	(+2 to acceptor)
post is voted down	-2	(-1 to voter)

A maximum of 30 votes can be cast per user per day, and you can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day (although accepted answers and bounty awards are immune to this limit). Also, please note that votes for any posts marked “community wiki” do not generate reputation.

Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:

15	Vote up
15	Flag offensive
50	Leave comments^†
100	Edit community wiki posts
125	Vote down (costs 1 rep)
200	Reduced advertising

A World (Online) Without Money (continuations.com)
Follr.com Social Card Now Supports Reddit.com (socialgears.com)
Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication (stackoverflow.com)
A new WordPress Stack Exchange (joelonsoftware.com)
Stack Overflow hit 1,000,000 questions last night (stackoverflow.com)
Diary of an Overflow Addict (go.theregister.com)

Is this goodbye?

This action is permanent.

Before you deactivate your account, know this:

You deactivated your account.

his action is permanent.

Before you deactivate your account, know this:

Closing Your Account

How do I close my account?

Ajay Ohri

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