As a result I’ve decided to commit complete and total Facebook Suicide. I’ll be permanently deleting my Facebook account along with 13730 people on Quit Facebook Day, May 31st 2010. The reason I’m choosing to delete my account as opposed to simply removing all of my private information, is because I do not wish to be a reason for my friends and family to choose to continue to use this service.
I am not trying to say that Facebook is a useless service, and that it is not right for some people. I just feel, that if my information is going to be on continual public display, I’d like it to be on my own terms. That is why I have things like this blog and my twitter account.
If you think you might be interested, make sure to check out the website for Quit Facebook Day.
Or if you can’t wait until May 31, 2010 to quit then follow this link for information on How to Quit Facebook.
See here for my original inspiration to Quit Facebook, courtesy of Adbusters.
Also if you are in Thunder Bay, make sure to check out my presentation on Social Networking entitled “Your Kids Online: A Parent’s Guide”. The presentation if May 26, 2010 at 7pm, to be held at St. Patrick High School. No admission charge, Free Refreshments and door prizes will be available.

Yesterday I finally grew tired enough of the look of this blog and went searching for a replacement theme. I had narrowed it down to two choices and excitedly downloaded them for installation. Little did I know that I was moments away from near total destruction of this beautiful blog. I had updated the Wordpress back-end of the blog before installing the new themes, and neglected to create a backup of the blog in total. Needless to say when I went to install a theme called Whiteout, I instead got what is known as the White Screen of Death. Turned out Whiteout is not all that compatible with the new version of Wordpress. Though thanks to the magical ability of my infinitely more tech savvy fiance the White Screen of Death was banished to the depths of the internet, and the blog in its entirety was recovered and put back up. I don’t know how, and I know enough to not ask how all this was done, but I am very thankful.
So now you can enjoy the new theme Bluemod, which is not fatal, and decidedly prettier than Whiteout anyways.