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)

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)

Deduping Facebook

How many accounts in Facebook are one unique customer?

Does 500 million human beings as Facebook customers sound too many duplicates? (and how much more can you get if you get the Chinese market- FB is semi censored there)

Is Facebook response rate on ads statistically same as response rates on websites or response rates on emails or response rates on spam?

Why is my Facebook account (which apparently) I am free to download one big huge 130 mb file, not chunks of small files I can download.

Why cant Facebook use URL shorteners for the links of Photos (ever seen those tiny fonted big big urls below each photo)

How come Facebook use so much R (including making the jjplot package) but wont sponsor a summer of code contest (unlike Google)-100 million for schools and 2 blog posts for R? and how much money for putting e education content and games on Facebook.

Will Facebook ever create an-in house game? Did Google put money in Zynga (FB’s top game partner) because it likes

games 🙂 ? How dependent is FB on Zynga anyways?

So many questions———————————————————— so little time

How Many Facebook Users Click On Ads? (allfacebook.com)
Google’s Response To Facebook’s Response To Google’s Facebook API Ban (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Facebook Games Statistics [Infographic] (madrasgeek.com)
Chapter 11 – Taking the Library to Users: Experimenting with Facebook as an Outreach Tool Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries (acrl.ala.org)

Downloading your Facebook Photos

Here is a three step process for Downloading your entire Facebook Info-

1) Go to top right hand corner- Account.

2) Under Account- click on Account Settings

3)Under Account Settings -Click on Download Information

Facebook creates a ZIP file for downloading your information- and sends you an email when the info is ready.

Why should you download your Facebook Info-

1) As a local backup of your profile

2) To move to Orkut – or better to share Photos on Picassa or Flickr to your non Facebook friends. Note FB does have a unique URL under each Photo that you can copy and paste and share, but its not really convenient besides being huge and not a small URL at all.

3) In case you want to delete your Facebook account but dont want to lose your memories and friends.

Nice step from FB- they are taking user privacy and empowerment more seriously and at 500 Million users can afford to be a bit more generous.

Facebook Adds Download Your Information Feature (ghacks.net)
How to download Personal Facebook Profile Information To Computer (mydigitallife.info)
Download the Missing Pieces of Data from Facebook (labnol.org)

Using Facebook Analytics (Updated)

People sceptical of any analytical value of Facebook should see the nice embedded analytics, which is a close rival and even more to Google Analytics for websites. It has recently been updated as well.

It is right there on the button called Insights on left margin of your Facebook Page

Like for the Facebook Page

http://facebook.com/Decisionstats

You can also use Export Data function to run customized analytical and statistical testing on your Corporate Page.

Older View———————————————————————————-

see screenshot of Demographics of 213 Decisionstats fans on Facebook ( FB doesnot allow individual views but only aggregate views for Privacy Reasons)

Creating Online Communities

Sometime back I had asked the question- How much do you think would it be to have the top 100 bloggers on SAS language on the same page, in a manner that the RSS feeds get updated on their own. The answer is here-

Wordframe. I had covered this software before in comparison to Ning.com and they proved favorable.

This is a small startup, East Europe based and very hard working. They allegedly wanted to become open source and had plans to create third party applications when I checked with them in January but this may be on hold for a new product launch.

Would sas.com pay for 1000$ set up fee and 200$ monthly fee for getting the top 100 SAS bloggers on their sascommunity.org website.

Would oracle pay for 1000$ set up fee and 200$ monthly fee for getting the top 100 Oracle bloggers on a website sponsored by them.

How much would Aster Data pay for say 100 bloggers about Hadoop ( ahem- assuming there are 100 people who CAN blog about Hadoop- a bit like Einstein’s 5 people in the world can understand his theory of relativity).

Check this site out.

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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