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Do You Know Anyone Quitting Facebook Today?

In addition to Memorial Day, today also marks Quit Facebook Day. Coincidentally, today's GraphJam features a poke on Facebook.   According to the website, Over 32,000 people have committed to quitting Facebook today. Sure, that's barely a scratch in Facebook's 400+ million users, but it's still a decent size to openly pack up and leave at once. Do you know anyone quitting Facebook today? ...

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What Your Email Address Says About You

Remember when Gmail was invite-only? I remember getting overly excited for J when he became the first person I knew in real life to get a Gmail invite (only a couple of days after the service launched!), and feeling a strange sense of accomplishment when he was finally able to invite others and gladly presented his then-girlfriend (ME!) with the first. In the six years since Gmail first launched, it has become THE email provider of choice among my friends. I have long since deactivated my Hotmail, MSN, and Yahoo accounts, and when I first bought this domain two years ago I began using Google Apps (which uses a more secure and stable version of Gmail) to manage my @geekinheels.com email...

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Is Your Personal Data on Spokeo?

My blogging friend Fabulously Broke alerted me of Spokeo this morning. According to their website, Spokeo is a "people" search engine that aggregates all publicly available data (including but not limited to: phone directories, social networks, marketing surveys, mailing lists, government census, real estate listings, and business websites). While a quick name search will bring up cursory information, paid members can access even more detailed data. I knew that after being active on social networks for years, my information would most likely be listed. What surprised me is that they had the wrong information. More specifically, their information was vastly outdated — they had me listed as still living with my parents, circa 1999! And NO, my parents' house is not worth $1...

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