The Big Bang of Social Networking

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BURIED several layers down in the Facebook settings was the box Dan Grippi, a senior at New York University, had been looking for: “Delete account.”

Was he sure? the software asked.

A well-credentialed computer geek, Dan, on that winter morning in 2010, had been on Facebook for five years, since he was 16. His addiction to it annoyed him. And he was thoroughly ticked off by Facebook’s relentlessly tailing him as he visited other websites. After a week of fiddling with settings, he hunted down the delete account button and clicked.

Source: www.nytimes.com

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