Deactivating Facebook

I have been using facebook for several months now and found it fascinating. I decided tonight to get rid of it at least as much as I possibly could. Here is the process such as it is. You will note the word deactivate is the only option you have.

Step 1.

Go to your account and select deactivate account at the bottom.

Step 2.

You must choose a reason for deactivation to proceed and will be presented with a randomly generated list of people who face book says will miss you.

Step 3.

Type the screwy text in the box and hit submit.

 

Step 4.

Receive and email the text of which make you quickly realize you have done little more than log out and begs the question just how long the information in your account remains to be accessed later.

The short and sweet of my decision is this. The service facebook provides no matter how interesting is in fact far to intrusive. They are to me complete strangers who have found an ingenuous way to collect comprehensive information about every citizen of the world who chooses to partake in their network the most objectionable of which is your relationships with the people you know, no matter how intimate. Remember I do not know a single individual from the facebook team or the organizations who will have access to my info. I find this too troubling to continue using facebook.

The slightly longer version is this. On a more personal level I began to find the information about my friends and acquaintances  to be a bit overwhelming. I was privy to conversation I would never under normal circumstances have known took place. The individuals having the conversation understood they had given consent for all their friends to view them but I could not shake the awareness that they did not have me in mind when posting them. The most disturbing aspects of this network to me was seeing younger folks I know in a new and more negative light. reading the clumsy details silly desires and reading uncharacteristic profanity. The creepiest was seeing girls I know who are just kids in my eyes photographing themselves in a provocative manner and how many times can you abide those images of the fake face lick. Anyway I have had enough of the yucky stuff I have learned and am going to return to knowing people for who they want me to know them as in person.

I am doing more than deactivating I am deleting it here which will take 14 days.