Facebook lets you erase yourself
In response to some public pressure, Facebook now enables users to completely delete their accounts and all the associated information. I assume (= I don’t know) that this means posts you’ve made on friends’ walls are also deleted, which might surprise the friends. Are there other ways in which the new deletion policy would disrupt the social ecosystem? And what does this tell us about the nature of Web selves. (Hint: That last question bears on the surprisingly amorphous topic we’re discussing on Monday.)
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