Why I Deactivated My Facebook Account

FaceBook is ridiculous. It's a selfish, forced interaction where peers can compare and brag to each other. It's not networking, it's fake social connections to see who has the most toys or who is ahead in "the game".

I admit it was fun at first to connect with high school and college friends I had not seen in years, but the intentions of most is clear when the first connection is over and nothing remains. These people were obviously not important enough to keep in touch with for the past 15 years, so why would I need to be friends with them now?

FB is socially inept in that way. I mean, where else would it be appropriate to find out that a friend from HS is engaged? How TACKY. Or how else would I find out that another HS friend had her third baby? Obviously both of these things happened a month ago and I just found out in my recent visit to FB. Was I supposed to be checking their pages everyday for juicy tidbits like these? Pulease! I have better things to do than stalk people who were not real friends to begin with.

Sooo, I deactivated my Facebook account today. At some point I will go back activate and take down everything and then deactivate for good, but I had just gotten to the point where FB annoyed me so much I had to do it. Facebook was made for college kids and it should have stayed that way. I would rather spend my time connecting with my true friends and family than any of those so called "friends" on FB.

Pinky said "It sounds like FaceBook is more like FakeBook!" Rock on Pinky. Rock on!