I've deactivated my Facebook account so I can spend more time working on my novel.... I wish that were the reason.
Here are my reasons
1.) Seeing what everyone is up to
Facebook has made it so I feel like I need to know what everyone is up to. We were never that way pre-Facebook. I need to wean myself off of that.
2.) Drunk Facebooking
There has been a number of occasions where I've commented on people's Facebook while I'm at a bar drinking. I have no filter after two beers and I become nasty and mean. Some of my drunk Facebook comments have been funny, some mean and embarrassing. So it's either stop drinking or stop Facebooking.
3.) Too many friends
It's not so much the amount of friends I have it's more who I am friends with on Facebook. I am friends with family, friends and co workers and there are only certain information I was a each group to see. Facebook changes so much I have to keep updating my privacy settings and to be honest, it's getting to be a pain in the ass. There is obviously a much larger issue at work here. If I can't share the same information for all three groups, that means I'm living in different worlds. That is true. I do live a bit of a double life and for people who live double lives Facebook requires a little bit more work. (When I say double life, I don't mean I'm like a sweet religious girl by day and hooker by night. It's not that extreme.)
I have recently done things on Facebook while drunk and emotional and highly regret. I am embarrassed by my actions and I figured it's easier to not have to face people on there. From now on, I will just make an ass of myself the old fashioned way, by emailing, texting, IMing and in person.
This is not a knock on Facebook. I don't think it is bad. In this case, I think it's the user that is the problem. I'll activate my Facebook again once I get used to not checking it so much.
Anyway, I know you all will miss my awesome status updates. I'm still on Twitter and Instagram and of course this blog.
I hope I'm able to stay logged off for some time. The hard part will be filling my day at work and may actually have to do work.
I could not agree more that it is WAY too hard to be yourself on FB when you have all of your family and co-workers on there. There are just things that certain people shouldn't know, and that happens when you aren't living a double life. :-)
ReplyDeleteIf you do start to miss FB, but don't want to start using it again, I once again, suggest Path.
Well I hope you're happy because now I have no reason to go on FB anymore. We need a secret social network so we can gossip about people and make rude comments without them knowing. Oh wait! We have that! It's called TV night at my house. Let's get that back up and running.
ReplyDeleteI'm really going to miss reading some status updates and article shares. I really do enjoy some people on Facebook. I hope you all can keep me posted about things in email or in real life. Tell me about what funny or interesting articles you've read, funny photos you take, etc.
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