Why the Site?

In April of 2010, Facebook launched their Open Graph API. I'd been a dedicated Facebook user for at least 5 years, for many of the reasons that most people use Facebook. It's a place on the Internet where common web activities are consolidated, and it's where my friends were. To achieve that critical mass, Facebook made itself very friendly to its users, with a pretty respectable privacy policy for all it did. With the Open Graph API, however, things changed irreversibly. Suddenly, user data became the cost of Facebook usage. It became horrifically difficult to opt-out of sharing information with Facebook partners, which at the time of writing are only 3, but I expect far more throughout the year. Facebook plugins made the website exceptionally prolific at sharing user information on tens of thousands of websites. We'd complained about Facebook before, but Facebook was seen as a "must-have."

As an open-source advocate and general corporate malcontent, that didn't apply to me. I didn't want to pay Facebook's price, and I didn't think I had to. So, I quit. This site pulls in from most of my other online presences, so it's my way of letting friends keep in contact with me. I won't keep all my Facebook friends this way, but I've kept my e-penis intact.