According to Read Write Web: 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.

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.

Ed

From Gawker article, Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War:

Stephanie Grace knows she shot herself in the foot . . .
. . . Which was the bigger mistake: thinking this audience wouldn’t take offense, or thinking they wouldn’t be cutthroat enough to take her down? Someone forwarded the email to Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, and the email made its way to Black Law Students Associations’ email lists nationwide. Then legal blog Above the Law printed the email with her name redacted. As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation . . .
. . . Stephanie graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in—wait for it—sociology. She’s on the Harvard Law Review and, after graduation, she’ll head to California for a plum federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the titillating defender of free speech who had to recuse himself from an obscenity case when his cache of cow porn pictures came to light.

So happy trails, Stephanie Grace, and when you have a chance, could you please answer: What is the innate intelligence of a half-black, half-white female, naked on all fours mooing like a cow? Judge Kozinski wants to know

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