I’m going dark on Facebook.

I’ve thought about doing it for a while. It’s not a privacy thing. People who whine about (gasp!) your information being public perhaps shouldn’t have put it on a (semi-) public forum. Yeah, it’s a little dickish when access to your information changes with little-to-no notice, but if it’s that private, put it in an e-mail.

No, it’s just a waste of time and a really bad way to keep up with people. I genuinely would like to keep up with at least seventy-five percent of my Facebook friends. But I’d rather you read this site (add the RSS to your Google Reader!), follow me on Twitter, or just talk to me over Gchat, AIM, or e-mail. Details for those:

My RSS
My Twitter (like simple status messages, no BS)
My Gchat: [my last name]@gmail.com
My AIM: [my first + last name, no punctuation]
My e-mail: [my first initial + last name, no punctuation]@mac.com

(I’m also going to get Flickr set up once I have all my photos on one computer.)

So follow me on those if you like, talk to me online, and/or leave an occasional comment on this page. Most importantly, drop me a line and let me know if you have a preferred method of sharing fun stuff– Twitter, blog, Google Reader shares, Flickr feed, whatever.

I just don’t think Facebook is the best way to communicate, and it seems like it’s taken over. It does a lot, but doesn’t do anything very well. And hey, you can integrate everything into RSS feeds anyway.

Okay then. Bye, Facebook. It’s been a long six years.

Oh, this is so so cool.

I got the Fotobook plugin for WordPress, and now my Photos page is automatically populated with all my Facebook photo albums. And since I installed Lightbox plugin, clicking on the photo enlarges it in a cool Flash (?) overlay.

Very fun. Highly recommended.

Update:
And now I have my cron job working. (On the hour, it repopulates the Photos page with all my most recent Facebook albums and photos.) For the benefit of future Googlers, you’ll want to put something like this in your crontab.

0 * * * * wget --delete-after "http://supercres.net/wp-content/plugins/fotobook/cron.php?secret=************&update"

…Making sure, of course, that it’s all one line and that you replace my URL with the one given in your Fotobook settings. Also note that wget is not included with OS X; they have curl, but I didn’t try that. (I’m putting it in my local machine’s crontab since my website server has shell access but not crontab.)

AND FINALLY… you have no idea how hard it was to get the word wget in a post. For some reason, WordPress tries to execute it when I click the “Update Post” button. Another post about that coming soon.