Can you “really” delete yourself from facebook?
A while ago, I decided to remove myself from facebook. I did not agree with FB’s privacy policies and practices and I really didn’t see much value in using FB anyway — I had less than a hundred “friends” and I rarely did anything with said friends on FB anyway (e.g., post on their walls, send them stupid links etc.) You can say that I was a “facebook hermit.”
Anyways, I decided to completely delete myself from facebook but it wasn’t easy. I found a post on groovyPost, aptly entitled “How-To Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account” very useful. The removal process is rather retarded. You have to really, really, really try hard to delete your account — you need to confirm your intent to delete several times during the removal process; you can’t log onto facebook (even accidentally via fbconnect) for 2 weeks, otherwise facebook will “assume” that you don’t want to remove your account and will cancel the deletion process etc. Anyways, after 2 weeks of carefully avoiding any kind of accidental interaction with facebook, I was finally able to delete my account from facebook.com. Or so I thought…
50K on JPMINI
Just surpassed 50K miles on JPMINI somewhere in Ohio on my trip back from Pittsburgh to West Lafayette.
Interestingly, it was exactly midnight (00:00 when JPMINI reached 40K and it’s exactly noon (12:00) for 50K. Something fishy is going on…
Anyways, wishing for many more fun-filled miles on JPMINI.
MGMT 545 Intro / Promo
Paper on OSS team formation accepted at Information Systems Research
My paper entitled “Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties” co-authored with Jae Yun Moon (HKUST) and Chen Zhang (U of Memphis) was accepted for publication at Information Systems Research. Here’s the working paper version.
Open Source Read, But Not Write
My colleagues Jae Yun Moon (HKUST) and Chen Zhang (University of Memphis) and I have been involved with a research project on OSS team formation. Last December, we conducted a survey of OSS project administrators and an executive summary of our results is now ready for distribution. The report is entitled Open Source Read, But Not Write: The Role of Project Administrators in Managing the Open Source Software Development Team Boundary (click to download).
Comments are welcome..
Hey! I’m an elf!
Something fun for the holidays… Jungpil as an elf. (Thanks to Jeewon for the link).
You can also see the animated flash version of Jungpil the Dancing Elf.
Happy holidays!
