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> Try deleting your Facebook account sometime if you'd like > a real good mindfucking What happens? (I deleted mine in 2008. I get plaintive emails from t
by Estragon 14y ago
> Try deleting your Facebook account sometime if you'd like
> a real good mindfucking
What happens? (I deleted mine in 2008. I get plaintive emails from them to sign up again, but that's about it.)
- dkrich 14y agoYou can only set your profile to not appear publicly in searches, and even that is non-trivial. If you want your profile permanently deleted, you have to email them with a form that I could only find through a Google search that led to their Q&A forum. Even then I'm not sure how "permanent" that permanent deletion is. Point is that the OP was suggesting that AOL MBA's fucked up the company by making the sign out process overly complicated to maximize revenue. That's not unique to MBA's or AOL, but for some reason that's the perception I suppose because AOL isn't as cool as Facebook.
- jaylevitt 14y agoNo, but (to me at least) it's MBA thinking. Technologists were thinking "How can we build something cool?" (An interactive mouse-driven sketchpad - over dialup in 1989.) Product folks were thinking "How can we build something great?" (What if we connected the whole world via e-mail and IM?) MBA's were thinking "How can we maximize short-term revenue?" Modal popup ads!