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.
2010/07/06 at 14:19
Maybe I’m just really lazy, but I find 90% of the blogs in my feed I never spend anytime reading. Posts are generally too long. (Especially design blogs. They are either consumerist fluff or thesis length posts on design theory… no middle ground.)
While specialized social networks always seem like a waste of time to join. Things like Behance (heck even Linkedin) have little value to me.
What I like about Facebook is it keeps everything in one place. The conversational aspects of Twitter are better for some friends, but like the low time suck Facebook is for me. I get a lot out of it with very little effort.
Okay, so that confirm the question: yes, I’m lazy.
2010/07/09 at 19:54
I finally understand why you were gone from Facebook. When I found you were gone even if I check it up only once a few weeks, I missed you since I felt like that I lost another way to contacts with you. I enjoyed your updates on Facebook but I do accept why you were gone.
2010/07/31 at 13:23
Hey Aki, I was a bit worried that people might think it was some sort of personal thing that I deleted my account. It wasn’t at all, but maybe now we can catch up more by Skype.
Christopher, it was nice that Facebook was so centralized and organized. But I also found that to be the problem.