Six reasons why I am not on Facebook

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Six reasons why I am not on Facebook

Wired\'s UK Editor David Rowan explains his reasons for logging off the network.

Federal News Network Staff

September 20, 2010 5:35 pm

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Wired’s UK Editor David Rowan writes in the Wired blog about why he’s foregoing the social networking site, Facebook.

Rowan says he celebrates the transparency and connectivity that social networks offer. But, he writes, “what’s increasingly bothering me is the wider social and political cost of our ever-greater enmeshment in these proprietary networks.”

Rowan’s not the only one wary of social networks. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found 71 percent of social network users ages 18-29 have decided to change their profile settings to limit what they share online.

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