A few months ago, I publicly declared a loss of context with respect to Facebook. I gave up and accepted people that I knew from the interweb, those who have been so kind to me, and many others that aren't part of my intimate social circles. Unfortunately, this messed up some other things and due to a personal situation, I've decided to rescind on this.

One of the problems with SNSs is that it's all about the networks, not the individuals. By opening up the doors with my Facebook, I exposed many of my friends and colleagues to unwanted observation by people that they didn't know and people that I couldn't vouch for. I don't want my visibility to affect my friends.

The worst part about this is that I need to now make "cuts." There's nothing more horrible than having to classify "real" friends and not. And I'm going to fuck up. To make this somewhat better, I decided to take the advice of previous commenters and make a more "public" Facebook profile that will be visible to anyone who is interested. I will also accept friend requests there from people that I want to get to know. Right now that profile is pretty empty, but I will fix it shortly. I'll actually play with Apps on the new profile while I've been ignoring and rejecting them mostly on my other profile.

I apologize to those that I offend in this process, but I need to do this to be a good friend to those that I care dearly about. Please forgive me for cutting you - I don't mean harm by this but I need to separate those who I know through my professional life from those who are part of my personal worlds. If you want to friend me on Facebook, please friend this profile.

Also, I still don't respond to FB email so please don't write me there. I can barely keep up with one queue so I refuse to add others to the situation.

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