I was reading yesterday that with enough searching in the Facebook help section, there’s an online form you can complete should you want to request Facebook to remove your profile entirely. Interesting in terms of maintaining an online profile.

Actually, you have to email them directly – there isn’t a mechanism for you to delete your account yourself.

They only recently added the option to email them for account removal after the uproar caused by users realizing that they could never close their account without manually deleting all the content on their profile.

Another contrast — I mentioned in my post that blogger and former journalist Tom Foremski claimed that he ONLY wanted to receive news pitches from “friends” through Facebook. Now he doesn’t really say what you’d need to do to befriend him. As you’d mentioned, maybe meet in person and exchange cards?

So many different points of view on this one.