Why I jumped off HMS Facebook

webmonkey / Bruce Tuten

Facebook membership is something of a must these days, as compulsory in being a part of society as owning a phone, mobile or otherwise. Shutting my account seems to be a controversy akin to tattooing a swastika on my forehead.

On declaring on Facebook that I was to deactivate my account (it's not possible to delete it) I had comments ranging from a simple ":(" to someone struggling to reconcile the news with a, "what's going on?!" Read on at Posterous..

Test conversations

flickr: mermaid99

One of the benefits of buying lunch from an expensive food market is that the stallholders are obliged to be polite and make conversation. This is not something that you encounter regularly, if at all, as a Londoner.

These interactions are a good opportunity to push the realms of acceptable conversation; a chance to test dialogue before using it on people that matter. Read on at Posterous..