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Goodbye cruel online world

The Times of London has a hilarious story on the rise of a new phenomenon they dub the "Facebook Suicide," — completely deleting all your information from a social network. If this were an actual, measurable trend, it might cause some consternation in the social networking world, but, after reading the article, Silicon Valley should be relieved. All the people quoted come off like complete technophobic loons. Take 27-year-old Stephanie, who quit Facebook to save her relationship with her insecure, insanely jealous, and manipulative boyfriend, who couldn't stand to see old pictures of her on her exes' profiles. "Facebook was damaging my relationship with my boyfriend to such an extent that if I hadn't done it [deleted her profile] we wouldn't be together now," she states. "As soon as my Facebook profile died, our relationship improved." Right-o there, Steph. It's Facebook's fault that your boyfriend is an abusive control freak. But leave it to the therapists to take the whole thing way too seriously... More »

7:28 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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Latest by Trackback: - Microsoft snatches up Square Enix's Japanese RPG 'Infinite Undiscovery' for the Xbox 360 (Daily Tech) - Rising trend documented, called 'Facebook Suicide', which involves deleting your account completely (Valleywag)... more »

Mark Pincus, Tribe cofounder, notes that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is becoming a fashion influencer. "At fb app dev meeting. Can't help noticing 4 guys in the room in flip flops." [Mark Pincus Blog]

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The number one car in Silicon Valley is the Toyota Prius hybrid. [San Jose Mercury News] (Photo from Wikipedia)

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Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

NICK DOUGLAS — "If you've sent me an email (and you aren't my wife, partner, or colleague), you might want to send it again." So says Fred Wilson, venture capitalist, declaring e-mail bankruptcy today on his blog. He's not the first high-profile person to take this measure. Here are three other notables who've given up on their e-mail (the most famous of whom reportedly white-lied) and three who found a better way. More »

1:46 PM on Mon Apr 23 2007
By Nick Douglas
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Why the Valley's not getting laid

As the President of the Colonies said in Battlestar Galactica, if the human race is going to survive after the Googlers Cylons attack, we're gonna have to start making babies. So why does all of Silicon Valley have such a hard time getting it on? More »

2:46 PM on Thu Jun 8 2006
By Nick Douglas
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bubble 2.0

Lazy news: New York Magazine finds the Internet again

Readers of the New York Magazine (ones who don't read Slate, the New York Times Styles, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, or Wired) now know there's a boom on. Writer Kurt Andersen spends three pages (well, the last page is two lines, like the last page of a dictated-length term paper) telling the same story as the other papers, but with the cluelessness with which the New York media glitterati always approach the Internet. It's like seeing USA Today redo a trend piece, but without the humility. So spare yourself the read and use the Valleywag Lazy News Edition. More »

8:44 AM on Mon Apr 24 2006
By ndouglas
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