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.