Top 12 reasons why I am about to deactivate my Facebook account, just 35 days after enthusiastically embracing the service:
12) I’m too old.
11) It’s too much like being on a reality-TV show.
10) Once it starts making the front page of paper-based content aggregators, it has lost its cachet.
9) I have a sneaking suspicion all those people on my list weren’t really my “friends.”
8 ) Nobody ever gave me a Facebook gift.
7) I don’t really want to look at pictures of a “friend’s” weekend road trip to Boston.
6) I am going to embrace a promising new craze: blogging.
5) I was spending an inordinate amount of time talking (in person, face to face, using my voice) to carbon-based friends about whether people are informed when you “reject” someone who wants to be your “friend” on Facebook or when you dump them from your “friend” list.
4) I don’t need to be immediately informed when a “friend,” after much deliberation, decides The Jeffersons is NOT actually a favorite TV show.
3) There are far better ways to procrastinate online. Think The Onion, YouTube and BBC News.
2) Increasingly, my status updates were about updating my status.
1) I have anti-social tendencies. What was I thinking?
4 Comments
May 22, 2007 at 11:12 am
So first you suck me into it, then you quit. Nice.
On the other hand, I’m looking forward to reading the blog again.
May 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Excellent list, Andy. That must have taken you a long time. Welcome back. You were missed. I was getting tired of looking at those two cartoon characters every day.
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