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# I like to be in control of my destiny
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/i-like-to-be-in-control-of-my-destiny/
- Published: 2010-05-12T13:52:41.000Z
- Updated: 2010-05-12T13:52:41.000Z
- Description: I don’t have a Facebook or twitter account and that surprises a lot of my friends since I am such a geek :). And the reason...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Rantings, Technology, Uncategorized, Web, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

I don’t have a [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/) or [twitter](http://www.twitter.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) account and that surprises a lot of my friends since I am such a geek :). And the reason I keep (kept) giving was that I want to be in control of my destiny. In this case, destiny being content. While Facebook and Twitter provide you with a easy way to connect with friends/relatives/[stalkers](http://www.facebookstalker.net/news/?ref=kudithipudi.org) etc, I believe it gives a lot of leeway on control over the content for the companies running these applications. I have all the means and ways to communicate with my friends and advertise what I need to world. How I do that? That is a blog post that I have been “drafting” for the last couple of months :)..Hope to publish it soon. And looks like the wider audience is finally waking up to it.

Check out [this](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/more%5Fweb%5Findustry%5Fleaders%5Fquit%5Ffacebook%5Fcall%5Ffor%5Fo.php?ref=kudithipudi.org) article on ReadWriteWeb regd how the tech leaders are calling for a boycott of Facebook and advocating for an open social networking protocol ([http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/more\_web\_industry\_leaders\_quit\_facebook\_call\_for\_o.php](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/more%5Fweb%5Findustry%5Fleaders%5Fquit%5Ffacebook%5Fcall%5Ffor%5Fo.php?ref=kudithipudi.org)).

Another [article](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study%5Ftwitter%5Fisnt%5Fvery%5Fsocial.php?ref=kudithipudi.org) on the same website, speaks about a study by the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, which shows that Twitter is really not a social networking site, but more of a medium to broadcast your content ([http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study\_twitter\_isnt\_very\_social.php](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study%5Ftwitter%5Fisnt%5Fvery%5Fsocial.php?ref=kudithipudi.org)). Doesn’t really support the argument I made earlier that [Twitter is not going to make it](https://kudithipudi.org/twitter-is-not-going-to-make-it/)..but it certainly supports the notion that once the hype is gone the influence of twitter as a medium will decrease.