Facebook doesn't make it easy to delete your account, but a growing number of people appear to be turning to Google to find out how to do just that. Google Suggest, the drop-down box that offers suggested search query completions based on absolute and recent upticks of popularity, now guesses that if you start typing "How do I..." that you'd like to know how to quit Facebook. Note that deactivating your account, something that Facebook responds to in a pretty shocking way as well, is not the same as deleting it.

Search maven Danny Sullivan noted the suggestion on Twitter this morning, but a growing number of industry watchers are talking about people deleting their Facebook accounts. Some, including at least two members of our own staff, have already done so. Google Suggest suggestions are often humorous, but the screenshot below is pretty serious stuff.

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So how do you delete your Facebook account? Even that is pretty remarkable! According to the #1 search result for the query, which is an unofficial Facebook group page written by someone else, you have to visit http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account. On that page you'll find a delete button. According to said unofficial group, you'll still be able to bring your account back if you log-in within the next two weeks! You won't show up in search results though/> [...]

Mon May 10, 2010 13:05 pm

[Editor’s Note: This post is part of SiliconANGLE’s “Predictions and Reflections” series. To view this year’s collection, click here. To participate, create an account or log into “TheANGLE” and request to join the group.

Chris Selland describes himself as former analyst, B2B Bus Dev & Marketing guy, Social Media skeptic (but willing to be proved wrong), and Jet & Met fan in Boston.

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I’ll admit it – I love ‘holiday prediction’ time.  It gives us all a chance to reflect on the year past and think about what’s going to happen in the year ahead.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:10 am

Here is another chess puzzle, white to move and mate in 2!

Last week at the social CRM summit in Georgia those in attendance were tasked with an interesting exercise around understanding advocacy.  We were to imagine that we worked for Direct T.V. (or as Paul likes to say Drek) and were told to come up with answers to the following questions:

1. How do you do define advocacy for Direct T.V?
2. How do you reward advocacy for Direct T.V?
3. What do you need to do to actually make all of this work from an operational standpoint?

I thought this was a great exercise that really made everyone in attendance think about what advocacy is.  Assuming we aren’t talking about any specific company, what does advocacy look like to you?  We came up with various thoughts and ideas around this such as an advocate is someone who:

• invests their time and money into your brand by continuously providing feedback and purchasing your products
• is willing to put their reputation on the link to recommend the company
• talks about your company publicly in a positive light
• is willing to recommend your products and/or services

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Mon May 31, 2010 14:10 pm

Walled gardens are already under attack because of the ease of sending content like messages and photos from one website to another. Sites that don't let content flow in and out freely, when that's what users want, are fighting against the powerful tide of the internet.

Now a new proposal aims to take things to the next level and send a payload of item-type specific action options along with every piece of content that gets shot across the internet. A loose body of innovators from some of the biggest social networking companies online have begun discussing an addition to the Activity Streams standard format called an Action Stream. That could blow the world of social networking wide open, allowing users to try out other competing social networks without losing their ability to interact with friends on Facebook, for example.

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Earlier this month social software designer Adrian Chan offered up a proposal for what he called Action Streams.

Action streams would not only share status/activity update meta-data but also permit updates to function as actions. For example, an invitation update posted in twitter could be accepted in Buzz. The vision for action streams thus involves a distributed and decentralized ecosystem of coupled action posts, rendered by third party stream clients and within particip/> [...]

Mon Mar 01, 2010 01:35 am

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