Replacing Facebook with Twitter
I've never been big on social media. I've had a twitter account for years but I use it primarily to keep up on what others are doing. I've also used Facebook and again, I've not cared too much about it. I don't use my real name and it's just something I use to post pictures of my cats and other frivolous rubbish I'm not sure I would want to tie to my real name.
But I'm finding I myself wanting to take it more serious but I don't want to give Facebook my data. So I've decided I probably will start taking Twitter seriously. I can't see myself saying much in 160 characters that I would worry about them retaining and then everything else can be put here. Thus one of the reasons I want to tidy up this place!
I also put some time into buying a short url. I was able to pick up a 4 character .co url and I managed to get something that makes sense as a short url for this site, it's a real work (and cool one, imo) and while it did take a couple hours to find it, I've quite likely improved my Scrabble skills significantly in the process.
I think the most important thing about this is that I will have fuller control over my data. I can make any or all of it disappear when I want it to. I can use it how I want to and move it where ever I want to. Of course it is easier to keep in contact with people through something like Facebook but Facebook could be described as Geocities 2.0 and as a developer I should hang my head in shame if I am using something like that. I have outgrown living on Hollywood a long time ago.