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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 10:53PM
Sooo I deactivated (not deleted because Facebook does not even offer that option, so you must deactivate therefore leaving open the potential to reactivate, UGH FACEBOOK I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU) my Facebook account the other day. This was a decision I had been wondering about for a few weeks, as in "I wonder if I could actually do that." But let's be realistic and responsible, shall we: I'm starting grad school, my time is valuable, and Facebook is a major time suck. It is made of links that lead to links that lead to links, and it's 100% centered on one of my favorite hobbies and honed skills, which is stalking people I barely know via the internet.
How is it going, you ask?
In the middle of dinner tonight, I asked Larry about Facebook. Like, longingly. As in, how's Facebook doing? What's it up to? Anything cool going on? See anything interesting? Feel like recounting some status updates?
On the plus side, I haven't reactivated my account. And I've only gone to the website twice out of sheer habit. Day by day, I guess. Oh, speaking of "day by day," I just re-read my first paragraph and realized that when I say "I deactivated my Facebook account the other day," I actually mean yesterday. Ay, me! Sad hours seem long.
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linds, for reasons i can't recall, i went looking for you on facebook the other day; maybe i went looking to see something you had posted before? i'm not sure. regardless, i typed in your name and was like, "huh? uh. WHAT? LJM? NOT ON FB??" and was so confused and bewildered that i im'd kel and was like WTF LINDS ISN'T ON FACEBOOK WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN????
but just as a fb update: i have a snow day today and i'm now friends with your mother on facebook.
Don't be a hater, Linds!!!!
oh, good for you! i have such a love-hate relationship with it,and am in the same boat with it really bringing out my inner lurker. in nov, i went through and deleted a swath of people i went to highschool with and no longer talk to (that i wasn't friends with in any sincere way - we'd just grown up in the same small town, and i'd been found as another 'person from home' to befriend online)
i had these weird encounters with several of the people i defriended at the bar when i was home where they would come up to me, and immediately say 'facebook!' or a sentence about me-on-facebook and them 'always' reading my profile, as their greeting. these are all people i haven't seen or talked to in years, and who i had defriended at least a month before. i sort of felt facebook as an entity staring back at me, and it was really weird.
i've heard some people who removed themselves from facebook saying they really had to overhaul *how* they communicate with the greater community - so much inviting and sharing of events goes on on facebook, pretty exclusively, that staying in the loop about shows, events or friend's gatherings gets muted if you're not in the network of easily clickable invite sending. it's not enough of a reason to make me stay entirely, and that rhetoric can be a crutch, but i'm still hanging on and debating about minimizing my profile, rather than deleting...... at least for now. ;-)
kait i miss status updates so much. please email or text me yours on the daily. also any interesting ones from people we either love or hate.
mom! i have to be a hater or else i'll fail out of school!
sarah yesssssss i am already having a problem trying to rationalize staying on because of all the communication that goes on there--for my birthday party last year, i did invites through facebook, and whenever i realized i had forgotten someone, i would always think "well wtf, their fault for not being on facebook." and now that person is ME. i also hate thinking that i'm missing out on cute pictures/updates from friends of mine who have babies! ughghghslkdh i commend you for considering this journey but let me tell you: hang on to your crutchy rhetoric for as long as you possibly can.
Augh! I just had another tab open to cull my FB friends list when I took a break to read this post! And the radio is talking about the problems with Facebook. Good for you Lindsey. You are braver than me!
i knew my life felt sad...
:)
I meant don't hate that Kaitlin and I are friends on Facebook!!!
linds ilu. and i am here for you. SOLIDARITY. it's coming up on my one year DEACTIVATION anniversary. meet me @ the pizza place and bring sparklers. and also, I'M STILL HERE FOR YOU EVEN IF YOU HAVE A RELAPSE. i will be anti-facebook enough for the both of us.
lindsey - i found this photo today, after spending some time last night constructing the parameters of a facebook fast with a friend
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyominx/156249167/
facebook is the cookie on my nose. i'm trying hard not to eat it!
ah, so that's what happened. i was trying to stalk you the other day and for a moment feared i had been unfriended.
but i totally feel ya. trying to shake the tv habit for now but facebook might be next.
anyway, good luck at school... i know you will kick ass!!! xoxo.
p.s. let me know if you want to jam on the uke. did you get one?
you guys, this is NOT GOING WELL. i think that when i get home i'm gonna re-activate my account and then set a leechblock filter up or something that alerts me when i've been f-ing around on facebook for ten minutes or more. THE PROBLEM ISN'T FACEBOOK, THE PROBLEM IS ME.
oh and gillian, no, not yet! but i still want to so it's def in the plans!