I deleted my Facebook account a few weeks back. It was over the Memorial Day holiday here in the US. The thoughts that immediately led up to it were — I don’t really care what 75% of these people are doing, Facebook is sucking my time from me, It’s so weird to compare the number of friends I have with _______.
Once I deleted my account, Facebook told me that I had 2 weeks before it actually would be erased and if I attempted to log in during that time, it would restart my account. Apparently some application I had forgotten about tried to log me in as I got emails congratulating my return to Facebook twice in the first few days. Now, though, it seems to be truly gone.
I don’t think I’ve missed a thing, since. I still find out about all of the shows I want to know about and it literally seems I have more time in the day. When I started on Facebook, I really loved the way it could help me keep in contact with my actual friends in other parts of the world. And as a promotional tool, it worked well for events I organized (like Three Pieces) or shows I was part of.
I still do very much like blogs. But Facebook was just hitting some weird undefined space between blogs and Twitter and I simply lost motivation. Some of these new non-centralized networks (like Diaspora or Appleseed) being developed seem to be very exciting though, I love the idea of joining specialized networks of friends with a low signal-to-noise ratio.
