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    Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it
    Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it
    Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it
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    Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it

    By Ivo Quartiroli

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    Chapter 1: Musings about Facebook -
    The Quality of Relationships -
    Children -
    Privacy Issues -
    Facebook Changes the Concept of Friendship -
    The Inner Reasons to Leave -
    The Logout Process -
    Chapter 2: Logout experiences -
    All Your Time or Nothing -
    This Time I Really Want to Leave it for Good -
    Bad Energy -
    Amplifier of an Inner Discomfort -
    Looking Through the Keyhole -
    An Affection-Compensating Tool -
    Boring to Death -
    Obsessive-Compulsive -
    From Village to Global Village -
    Reliving my Earlier Nightmares -
    Political Control -
    Not a Broad Communication -
    You Always Have to Feed the Beast -
    A Narrowed Down Tunnel-Vision Style of Contact -
    References

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIvo Quartiroli
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9788897233091
    Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it
    Author

    Ivo Quartiroli

    Ivo Quartiroli was a software programmer, a book publisher and book author in Italy. Involved both in information processing and consciousness processing through a spiritual path toward the truth, he writes about the intersection of technology, psychology, spirituality and society on his blog, at www.indranet.org and writes for Italian magazines about technology and society. Ivo Quartiroli is also the author of The Digitally Divided Self: Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet. “It isn't easy to find an informed and critical look at the impact of digital media practices on human lives and minds. Ivo Quartiroli offers an informed critique based in both an understanding of technology and of human consciousness.” —Howard Rheingold “Aware of the profound and rapid psychological and social metamorphosis we are going through as we ‘go digital’ without paying attention, Ivo Quartiroli is telling us very precisely what we are gaining and what we are losing of the qualities and privileges that, glued as we are to one screen or another, we take for granted in our emotional, cognitive and spiritual life. This book is a wake-up call. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates should read it.” —Derrick de Kerckhove Intersecting media studies, psychology and spirituality, The Digitally Divided Self exposes the nature of the malleable mind and explores the religious and philosophical influences which leave it obsessed with the incessant flow of information. The Table of Contents, the introduction and the first chapter of The Digitally Divided Self are available at http://www.indranet.org/the-digitally-divided-self-table-of-contents-introduction-and-chapter-1/

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      Facebook Logout - Ivo Quartiroli

      Ivo Quartiroli is also the author of The Digitally Divided Self: Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet

      It isn't easy to find an informed and critical look at the impact of digital media practices on human lives and minds. Ivo Quartiroli offers an informed critique based in both an understanding of technology and of human consciousness. —Howard Rheingold

      Aware of the profound and rapid psychological and social metamorphosis we are going through as we ‘go digital’ without paying attention, Ivo Quartiroli is telling us very precisely what we are gaining and what we are losing of the qualities and privileges that, glued as we are to one screen or another, we take for granted in our emotional, cognitive and spiritual life. This book is a wake-up call. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates should read it. —Derrick de Kerckhove

      Intersecting media studies, psychology and spirituality, The Digitally Divided Self exposes the nature of the malleable mind and explores the religious and philosophical influences which leave it obsessed with the incessant flow of information.

      The Table of Contents, the introduction and the first chapter of The Digitally Divided Self are available here

      Facebook Logout

      Experiences and Reasons to Leave it

      Ivo Quartiroli

      Published by Silens at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Ivo Quartiroli

      www.indranet.org

      Cover design by Moreno Confalone

      ISBN-13: 978-88-97233-09-1

      ISBN 10: 88-97233-09-0

      silens

      Milano – www.silens.org

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Musings about Facebook

      The Quality of Relationships

      Privacy Issues

      Children

      Facebook Changes the Concept of Friendship

      The Inner Reasons to Leave

      The Logout Process

      Chapter 2: Logout experiences

      All Your Time or Nothing

      This Time I Really Want to Leave it for Good

      Bad Energy

      Amplifier of an Inner Discomfort

      Looking Through the Keyhole

      An Affection-Compensating Tool

      Boring to Death

      Obsessive-Compulsive

      From Village to Global Village

      Reliving my Earlier Nightmares

      Political Control

      Not a Broad Communication

      You Always Have to Feed the Beast

      A Narrowed Down Tunnel-Vision Style of Contact

      References

      Chapter 1: Musings about Facebook

      The Quality of Relationships

      Does participating in social networks improve the quality of our offline relationships or expand the number of our real connections? Not according to a study titled Use of Social Network Sites and Instant Messaging Does Not Lead to Increased Offline Social Network Size, or to Emotionally Closer Relationships with Offline Network Members. According to this study, time spent using social media was not associated with larger offline networks, or feeling emotionally closer to offline network members. Further, those that used social media, as compared to non-users of social media, did not have larger offline networks, and were not emotionally closer to offline network members. (Pollet, 2011).

      Privacy Issues

      There are then many issues surrounding privacy and the way Facebook uses our interactions to accumulate data on people to better target its advertisements.

      In September

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