facebook

Soooo, I quit facebook. Very hard thing to do - I LOVED being able to catch up with people from long long ago and be able to send off a quick email to someone without having to search for their email address. I enjoyed being able to read about what people were up to and look at their photos. BUT things got a little messy - people assumed things, people spoke to quickly, people started to judge what other people were thinking or saying and I felt like it was time to go.

The decision to delete it was the easy part. I got rid of all my photos and videos first and then deleted all my information. Then I decided to delete the 500 and something friends that I had. That was the hard part. Over two nights I deleted everyone - some were harder to delete than others. I just had this feeling of sadness for a lot of other people.

After that I deactivated my account. Then, a couple of days later a friend told me that I could actually delete the whole account (and save me the painful process of deleting everything and everyone) so I got onto that and "deleted" my account. After the 14 days notice period was finally up - my facebook account was gone.

Its now been about 3 months without it - and yes, I have noticed the difference. Not in my time management as some suggested, but in that I cannot just contact people with a click of my fingers. Im also the last person to get invited somewhere - because everything is now via facebook. I miss seeing photos of new babies, old friends and exciting adventures that friends go on that I wouldn’t normally be able to see. I miss seeing what gets announced (or unannounced). Some said that I could rely on Cade for that - those people would assume that Cade reads his "newsfeed" on a regular basis...

What I miss most I guess is the friendships that have been formed from all over the place - just gone with one click of the delete button. People thought I was "breaking up with them" because I had gone off. Phone calls were made, asking why I had deleted them. I wanted to get back on and explain my side, but I couldn’t.

You see, I’m the type of person who loves people, a people person if you wish. I like the friendships that I make in random different areas of my life. I love being able to catch up with people from Primary School via an email. I care about what people think about me and don’t like people to think not good of me. I know that I shouldn’t care - but deep down I do.

So, I quit facebook. Was it a good thing? I’m still not quite sure.