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After debating over it for a few months. I’ve decided to decrease my online footprint based on usage and perceived value.

Since I signed up to MySpace I’ve logged in about a half-dozen times to check messages, reply to comments, and upload a few profile photos.

Shortly after that I signed up to Facebook and did just about the same thing. I logged in from time-to-time to catch up on friend requests, see if I liked any of the new applications, and then logged back out.

My main reason for closing both my MySpace and Facebook accounts is because I believe that the value in these services is equal to the effort you are willing to put into them. As with any social network - you get what you put in. Unfortunately for me I’ve been unable to find the value in either of these services beyond the initial contact I’ve been able to make with those I haven’t been able to otherwise.

Side note: MySpace and Facebook have similar methods of deleting your account. I like MySpace’s method because they ask you for a reason, and I like Facebook’s method because they try to educate you on features they have based on your reason(s) for leaving. Pretty slick.

I’m not sure if this is a good idea or not, but I’ve been wanting to take this plunge since mid-summer and I’m relieved I’ve finally done it. There are a few other social networks that I am on the fence about, but they typically do something that other social networks simply do not do (or I use them a bunch) so I’m holding onto those accounts for a while longer. Have you ever thought about closing any of your social networking accounts?

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 I am extremely upset right now! I spent over 2 hours writing the “about” section for this website. I was using the editor built-in to Wordpress. When I clicked on the button to publish it errored out and when I used the back button on the browser the page was expired. I lost all of what I had written. I hate that. It’s happened in the past and so usually I write posts in an offline editor so I don’t lose everything in case of an error like what just happened to me. Wordpress team: Where is the auto-save?! I am not happy. Someone please tell me there is a way to recover what I wrote.

BTW, I use Microsoft’s online version of Outlook (OWA) which is guilty of the same problem. I’ve written lengthy emails on the online editor only to have the page error upon hitting send. This is insane. I guess I’ll just get into the habit of copying the entire post to the clipboard before posting. I am frustrated and upset that 2 hours is totally wasted. I’m going to bed before I go nuts.

UPDATE: Brian Blood over at Network Jack posted about how he modified the Wordpress database to recover the last 2 revisions of a post. It wont help me in this case but I’ll implement his method for preventing the problem in the future.

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The power of the internet is amazing. I did a search for joeperrin.com on the wayback machine website and found a cached version of my website from May 26th 2004.

See it here. Try your own search on the wayback machine and make fun of yourself for using tables for style in your HTML pages instead of CSS.

What a fun trip down memory lane!

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