clipped from: www.tvo.org After Microsoft dropped $240 million for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook, Bill Gates decided he doesn't like it anymore.
Not in a business sense, he's just stopped using his account. And that's about as far as he can go, because (like those two cowboys on the mountain) you can't quit Facebook. As the New York Times reporter yesterday, "While the Web site offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not succeeded in erasing their records from the network."