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Facebook frustrates students' efforts to quit
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Think you can quit Facebook? Think again. Jane Dobkin ’10 decided to leave the popular networking site and deactivated her facebook.com account, but she still continued to receive friend requests and e-mails sent through the website, she said.
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Re: Matt Hoberg
Don't put words in my mouth. First of all, it's irrelevant whether or not the N.Y. Times is a "bastion of journalistic ethics," which it need not be (most newspapers are not "bastions of [...] ethics, and even if the N.Y. Times were some crummy paper, my point holds).
Second of all, no one said the N.Y. Times had a monopoly over stories. But, to take a story about a trend that another reporter noticed, and to cite facts about facebook from another story without accreditation is unethical.
Why would you want to leave facebook though? That would be as antithetical to contemporary life as giving up your cell phone, your email, or airplane travel.
Apparently it is a principle of journalistic ethics that the New York Times, itself no bastion of journalistic ethics, must have a monopoly on news reporting.
Ironically enough, they did this yesterday too: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/02/12/20041/ and http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/education/28n...
Here are links to those articles:
The original is http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11...
The second one is http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/technology/13...
I'm disappointed that you only credited the New York Times once in this article, and that too, indirectly. This article rehashed the NYT article "How Sticky is Membership on Facebook?" from February 11th, but just added some connections to our campus. I know that you certainly did not plagiarize, but nevertheless, it seems unethical not to give credit where it is due.
PS: According to another NY Times Article, "Quitting Facebook Gets Easier," the issue has been resolved.