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Just not having a Facebook account is much more effective; once people notice that they have to e-mail someone, they may as well e-mail everyone. Etc. Facebook

• pyre 15y ago
  Using Facebook as your RSS feed for your blog drives readers to your blog (i.e. just post the links, don't post the content). I fail to see where the parent was talking about 'harming' Facebook. This entire discussion is about keeping control over your Internet presence. If you use a domain that you control as your canonical presence, then you can easily sign up for whatever the social network of the day is and use it to direct people back to your domain. This extends beyond this though: For example, if you use a GMail/Hotmail/Yahoo email address as your main email address, then you're completely dependent on these companies to provide the service. If they ever change policies or start doing things that you don't like, there is a large barrier to just switching services. On the other hand, if you purchase your own domain and use that for email on such services (e.g. Google Apps for Domains), then you can easily switch services without needing to tell everyone that may want to contact you about your new email address. In general, you can still use free services, just so long as you wrap your domain around them so that you can point people elsewhere if things change.