Monday, September 28, 2009

Facebook...

... is pretty much dead to me now. Tonight I deactivated my account, resolute against the efforts to keep me around. This last-ditch plea begged me to reconsider:

Your 185 friends will no longer be able to keep in touch with you.

Really? Does this include my family members? Have I now been shunned because of this? How about my best friend? What about my roommate? (Granted, we've talked more on Facebook lately than in real life, but...)

The point is this: If I can't keep in touch with my friends except for on Facebook, there is something terribly wrong. That would mean that either I have no time to spend building relationships in real life, or that they are all quite shallow in the first place. At any rate, I am done with Facebook. Now I will try to further authenticate my relationships in the real world.