Logout Quotes

I don't need more friends. I need to be more in touch with the friends I already have.

Facebook is not your source of love and care. Facebook (and other Internet giants) digitally manipulates our need for love,

Friendship is something to be achieved over years of deep and intimate connection, not by clicking on a small picture and requesting it.

I received my birthday greetings on Facebook. It was weird to get tens of happy birthday messages on my wall and not know whether they had smiled, or if they had dedicated more than a few seconds while browsing other people’s messages, email, web sites, chat windows, and who knows what else. I have never met in real life most of the people who greeted me. Some of them I don’t even know or remember who they are. None of the people who left me a birthday message called my phone.

In Ads, we had completely failed to realize the importance of the logout page on FB. A bit of background: In most developing countries, people do not own desktop computers, and their phones are non-smartphone pieces of shit (this is, of course, gradually changing). So people do what you do as a Western backpacker in Brazil or India or whatever: they use an Internet café or other public computer. They log in, use Facebook at some rate per hour, and then log out. What they leave behind is the logout screen, which just so happens to be the most common webpage up on browsers in the world. Really. You walk into a library or café anywhere in the world, and most of the screens will be glowing Facebook blue. And that is also how most new Facebook users in these countries came into being, not to mention nudging existing users into using Facebook. A fact that we in Ads did not even begin to appreciate.

Tab – It shows the completion possibilities for commands or filenames. Ctrl + A – This moves the cursor to the start of the current command line. Ctrl + C – This ends an active computer program and shows the prompt. Ctrl + D – This will log you out of the current session. This key combination is similar to typing logout or exit. Ctrl + E – It moves the cursor to the end of the current command line. Ctrl + H – This is similar to pressing the backspace key on your keyboard. Ctrl + L – This clears the current terminal. Ctrl + R – This searches the command history. Ctrl + Z – This allows you to suspend computer programs.

If you have a slight tendency to be obsessive-compulsive, Facebook expands this tendency to the maximum. After all, Facebook itself is the most obsessive-compulsive company.

I don't need more friends. I need to be more in touch with the friends I already have. Parallel to the growth of social networks, sociological studies say that there is a decrease in the number of intimate friends in people’s real lives.

What I read on Facebook doesn’t tell me whether the person walks his talk. Since the mind can simulate anything, we don’t have a clue whether wise words are backed by actual experience or not.

In June, I received my birthday greetings on Facebook. It was weird to get tens of happy birthday messages on my wall and not know whether they had smiled, or if they had dedicated more than a few seconds while browsing other people’s messages, email, web sites, chat windows, and who knows what else. I have never met in real life most of the people who greeted me. Some of them I don’t even know or remember who they are. None of the people who left me a birthday message called my phone.

Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit that has Facebook integrated.” While “the only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions”,

Any Web page visited containing a Facebook like button is being traced, regardless of the fact that the user may not actually click any button.

As Facebook users, we are actually working for Facebook for free, building their huge, functional database for ad targeting.

Friendship is something to be achieved over years of deep and intimate connection, not by clicking on a small picture and requesting it. As much as we can be aware of the differences between embodied friendship and the social network version, as every politician knows, a lie repeated hundreds of times becomes truth.

Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit that has Facebook integrated.

According to a Pew Internet study titled "Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites," 88% of teen social media users have witnessed mean or cruel behavior and 15% have been targets of such behaviors (Pew Internet, 2011).

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,

Also, removed friends are kept by Facebook, creating potential problems, for instance, for people in countries where government agencies may want to find out information regarding previous relationships.

For every login to hell, there exists a logout to hope

Log in Love; log out Hatred, and scan evil threats, with the purity of thoughts; life becomes secure and stays smooth and flowery.

Even our colorful and diverse languages around the globe are at stake. Instead of being diverse mediums of thinking, sensing, and writing differently, different languages are being turned into one corporate language that enables you to click on this agreement or that; to login, logout, or accept the “terms and conditions of use” of this service or that blindly. Sometimes you can use a corporate service in a language that you don’t speak simply because it is a carbon copy of one which you had previously encountered on a different product or service in your own language. In other words, languages are saying one and the same thing: be a good and obedient customer to the masters!