I pulled myself off of Facebook last night... and this morning. The site tries to make sure that you'll never leave. And even when you do, it's just as easy as logging-back-on to "reactivate" your account. Just try it, you'll see.
Last night I thought of a way to take myself off permanently so that I couldn't ever reactivate my own account, but it turns-out that you have to confirm your own password about 3 times when you deactivate your account. I thought that I could just change my password, just blindly hit the keyboard a few times, then deactivate the account--that way I wouldn't know what my password was. No dice!
Got it figured out now, though. I'm off for good, and if you see me posting anything, then call the police on me for wasting more valuable time (notice, though, that I had to hop on my old blogspot account to "notify" my friends almost immediately that I will no longer be reachable through that devil's playground of wasted time and energy).
I'm trying to convince everyone that there is a better way, though, to keep in contact with your friends. Facebook makes you think that you'll never talk to the people that you care about if you leave. It makes you believe that you'll lose contact with someone that you'll regret not talking to again... But, what did you do before Facebook? Weren't you all right? Weren't you able to function just fine? Didn't you have hours more each day to do things that you really ought to have been doing?
Good riddance. Thanks for the fun time, though, and thanks for showing me how pervasive your evil works are Facebook... er, I mean Satan... er, I mean Facebook.
Josh
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