- Robert Goolick: In a Daily Beast blog post today, the novelist not only proclaims his disdain for cocktail parties and Grand Central Station, but then compares Facebook to a cocktail party in Grand Central Station. He says, " I do not feel less alone because people I don’t know now and never will take the time to wish me a happy birthday, as charming and kind as they may be."
Unfortunately, Goolick is a tad late to the party—bloggers have been talking about quitting Facebook for a few weeks (some even established their own "quit facebook day.") Of course, it turns out that many would-be "Facebook quitters" don't actually have what it takes to leave. Nevertheless, here's a taste of the trend.
- Gizmodo, gives a list of 10 reasons to leave. Number one? "The Facebook application itself sucks."
- PC World notes that some 60% of Facebok users contemplated leaving the site.
- Matthew Milan, a Toronto-based web designer and founder of Quit Facebook Day, already did quit.
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