Moving Past Facebook
I’ve left Facebook. It was time. Even though I know my “profile” lingers in some suspended state and isn’t really erased - I’m no longer losing time to something that now fails to deliver on what I once depended on it for.
One advantage to being an early adopter is that you get to experience things in a very pure state sometimes early on — and while sometimes it continues and is an ongoing love — more often the product’s lifespan, or use in a more practical sense, limits it too much once you get out of the “beta” phases. Facebook fell into this trap. As I looked at my growing friend list I realized I had very little meaningful interaction with most people on it. Despite my own urges to post my cute kid’s pics, I rarely looked through other’s albums or read their more mundane day to day updates. I had to admit I wasn’t learning a lot about the people I cared about, but was using the site as a crutch to rationalize my own inability to reach out in a more tangible way.
If anything not having to endure vague-booking and political landmines makes it worth having left. The downside? I can’t get reminded daily it’s someone’s birthday (that sadly did help me), and I can’t get free stuff just for “liking” something as a promotion.
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