Ridiculous! I never actively use my facebook account any more... and I have my reasons... regardless, I wanted to let people know that I'm moving on, past the "social networking" (which used to be something you did with people at a dinner party or on their porch with a beer and some crisps) websites, and I couldn't even accomplish this. Apparently facebook is so corrupt that you need to decrypt some obscure esoteric text and enter it into a box just to post something. Or alternatively listen to some garbled message and enter that instead. Furthermore, there are so many freakin widgets, photos, and crap that you need a speedy proc and connection to get it to move. The next paragraph was intended for my facebook cohorts...but alas, I gave up on posting it. I would send an email blast but I think that would be too pretentious. I doubt I'll be missed as I was never active in poking anyone anyway. Here's the message I intended to post:
I'm leaving facebook. Social networking sites are not for me. I stay connected to people I see face-to-face. Keeping touch long distance is easy with e-mail. Facebook is just too frivalous with all its "ice-breaker" gimicks, poking, time-wasters, etc. I enjoy annonymity and don't really want to know as much about others as they are often willing to share. I would appreciate if people asked permission before posting my image online or images of my family. I will, however, be hippocritically keeping my introvertedness public by blogging on topics that interest me. I will be deleting this (facebook) profile on July 4, 2009 to celebrate my independence. You may find what I'm thinking about/working on at my new blog:
Of course you can email me as well...
Farewell Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ...
So there it is. I also tried to delete an old MySpace profile of the same name as this blog and failed. I guess I'm not as computer savvy as I had thought...or is this just "the man bringing me down?" For real 'Networking' I am still entertaining the continued casual use of LinkedIn...until it becomes useless as well.
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