While following some links and websites on the net, I ran across this video clip entitled “Don’t talk to the police”, everyone should watch this video.

In a tweet from LeoLaporte, he linked a blog post from Mark Zuckerberg where Mark explained that they were pulling the previous version of the ToS out of revision control and putting it back into place until they can come up with a better one. Way to go for public pressure and outcry!

I’ll be honest, until the recent discussion about the changes that facebook.com had made to the terms of service, I haven’t thought about it since I started using it. I won’t say since I signed up, because I did that initially with no plans to ever use it except to look at some pictures that a friend had posted there of his house.

Later on, a few other friends found me on facebook and so I started to slowly use it. Adding friends from High School that I had long ago lost touch with, even connecting up with someone that I went to gradeschool with! It was all kind of fun and exciting, creating links back to people that I just didn’t have the time or inclination or resources to track down before.

But now, with the changes to fb regarding content, I am unsure if I want to continue using it. As I look back at things I have done on fb, I discover that the main thing that I have been doing is just updating my status, and reading what friends are updating for their status messages. I don’t need fb for that. I have a blog. I also have a twitter account. With those two thoughts in my head, I have been kicking the idea around of either killing off fb entirely, not that they will delete the small amounts of content that I have put up or of just piping my twitter updates to it along with my blog posts and not going to facebook.com at all anymore. But would that be enough?

I know that it is too late to get the genie back into the lamp, I have far too much information on the intarwebs from mailing lists, old websites, et cetera. But I am trying to think more about what I put out there, even if I can’t un-ring the bell.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that I do want to feel connected to people, even if it is in a superficial, in passing kind of way. I am on multiple IM networks, I am on IRC almost any time that I am awake. I check my email with the kind of compulsive habit that I wish I could apply to other parts of my life. And of course I also play World of Warcraft, which has a whole list of other people, blogs and forums that I “connect” with in some way.

After much thinking about it (I started this blog post several hours ago, then went to bed), trying not to be hypocritical or to jump on a somewhat popular bandwagon, I am going to keep my facebook account. I will just be little more careful about what I put on there, and most likely will try to integrate twitter and my blog into my life a little more.

After reading a blog post again that a … well, I can’t say we are friends anymore, it’s been a long long time since we had a meaningful conversation, lets call him a possible new-old friend. Anyway, he posted about using Blog RSS Feed Reader fb application, so I am going to follow his lead and see if it works for me.

In this article on foxnews.com, at the end there is the following quote:

Boettger, who was shocked that the files had been made public, asked FOXNews.com to delete them. Though he said he didn’t know who could have made the mistake, he said he was on the case. “We’re gonna try to find out who released that and who it was released to and how we could retrieve it,” he said.

While at the top of the article is a picture of the scanned document. So Fox News, in writing an article about how everyone is shocked and dismayed that this mans private records were published, publishes them.