I've been somewhat of a Facebook fanatic at times during the last three or four years. My Facebook "friends" number... oh, I don't know, somewhere above three hundred I think. I could go check and make sure, but I've deactivated my Facebook account.
I had thought about doing this in the past, but I was enjoying Farmville too much at the time. Now I have become extremely bored with the game. I am a multi-millionaire farmer and the game provides me with no way to spend all my funds. They want me to use REAL money to buy the good stuff. No thanks.
I read the rules of Facebook and found out that if I want to, I can sign in and reactivate my account. I may or may not do that; we'll see how much I miss it. I may be back on in a week, who knows?
Oh, there will be some things I will miss: pictures, for instance. My nephew Scotty has a new motorcycle, and I downloaded the picture from Facebook and sent it to Cliff in email so he could see it. Cliff has a Facebook account but seldom checks it. (I just realized, if I want to see what's going on with family members I can sign on Cliff's account.)
I do have email, so anyone who wants to contact me on the Internet can use that.
I'll let you know how this turns out.
I expect I'll get back to actually reading my favorite blogs instead of skimming them. I will, once again, monitor Tractor Tales to see what's going on there.
Or I may crawl into a corner and suck my thumb, whimpering like a baby.
FB is intrusive and buggy, but I love keeping up on people's lives. I save my personality and life stories for the blog. As my older daughter wrote on her blog, "Facebookville is like a fun house, with distorted mirrors." You can't get to know people very well through their little quips.
ReplyDeleteI like Margaret's comment... I grow weary of it all myself and yet I hang around mostly due to my kids that are on there.
ReplyDeleteOh, that explains it. I thought you'd blocked us (instead of hiding.) LOL See your email.
ReplyDeleteI have not done facebook, my daughter does. I have peeked a few times when I wanted to see some body's photos in fact I checked yours probably about the day you decided to quit!
ReplyDeleteI have never played games on the puter, so the games seem silly to me.
daugher plays games all the time.
once I had sister's pass word and could go on FB as she. I wanted to see some photos she had told me about meantime she decides to stop FB. I didn't tell her and a few days later her son says Oh mom you signed back up on FB!
no! I didn't she says so she goes on and there she is AGAIN with a bunch of friend she has never heard of. Then she notices aLL the friend are Tyson worker from arkansas and she knows I have been playing with her FB.
I noticed you were gone this morning when I logged onto Facebook. I thought maybe you had deleted me, but was glad to read your blog this morning, and saw you deactivated your account. We will miss you! Have a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Pat
Sad. But if you are not into why have it. I enjoy it but not as much as I used to. I still am on it a lot but have been reading blogs a little more often (esp now that I have a Droid phone that makes it easy when I'm on the go. Just don't go in the corner and suck your thumb. lol
ReplyDeleteI just read on Hotair that China wants to buy facebook. They want to control social media in their country and Ours? Good reason not to belong.
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