Facebooking

I recently deleted my personal Facebook account.  It honestly felt like a daring and emboldened decision at the time, but in the end nobody really noticed or gave a good crap.  Nobody except my friends Karen and Gregg, that is; and about two days later my sister texted: Did you delete fb acct??  

It had all just become Too Much!  I was logging in far too frequently, and found myself increasing vexed by what I saw on there: the pokes, (and what the hell is a superpoke?), the Mafia Wars, those nauseating bumper stickers my eighteen year old cousin posts about her perverted little boyfriend: "I'll love you until my last breath takes you from me," the Farm Town, the pieces of flair.  Furthermore, I was a total slut when it came to clicking that "like" button.  I began to whilst away my Saturday mornings partaking in lifeblood sapping quizzes like "Which truly badass historical figure are you?" or "What Disney villain are you?" or "What Poison song are you?" 

When I took the "What great woman of the bible are you?" quiz, it decided I was Mary Magdalene.  These quizzes are nearly always misspelled and seem more than a little arbitrary.  And yet, I took them.  I took them with abandon.

My friend Gregg did send me virtual poo smeared on a toilet seat once, which I have to admit was pretty effing awesome.  But I have no interest in becoming a fan of Coors Lite, or Bonfires, or Flipping over my pillow to get to the cool side.  My friend Matt actually created a group entitled: Not a fan of groups group.  I admire his edgy sentiment.

But the fact remains, somewhere along the line Facebook just stopped being fun.  Every Tom, Dick and Harriet starting sending me friend requests, even that dude who'd threatened to blow everybody up at our high school graduation.  I even inadvertently noticed a relative had recently posted that it was time for Hubby and me to start a family.  This information, however harmlessly intended, was enough to make me want to walk into oncoming traffic.

All of this culminated in my hitting the delete button.  But Christ, do I miss it! 

xoxo

PS: I just thought of a good quiz to create: Which Corey are you?  Ooooh, that would've been a good one!  Darn.

PPS: I think I'd be Haim.  Even though he's a hot, festering mess, in my opinion he's still preferable over Feldman.  Plus, we're both born on the Sagittarius/Capricorn cusp.  Don't ask me how I know that, I just do.  Don't judge.

Comments

[Sissy]

You'd definitely be Haim.

I keep getting fb notifications that I am missing out on flirts. What the hell is that?

[the odd broad]

I can't say that I know, Sissy. I'm going to talk in my Haim voice all day now. "Movie, movie, movie..."

[Weinerdog]

Please go back to FB!!!!!
You're being seriously silly!
Just ignore all the crap you get sent.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[Weinerdog]

I mean I'm friends w/ the cowboy from the village people for Christ Sake!!!! Do I know why he wanted to be friends w/ me? Do I care? NO. It's just the way of Facebook.

[Tanya]

I totally agree about facebook, I'm constantly deciding whether or not I want to keep it- one day I'm deleting my profile and the next day I'm practically lost without it. It's seriously an addiction, but it's getting a little crazy too on there. The passing and chugging drinks back and forth, quizes, pokes (so annoying) and I too give way too many thumbs up. Actually, they should really create a thumbs down- then maybe I'd enjoy it more, haha :)
Ahhhh, what's a girl to do.

[Steph]

I delete "friends" rather than my account itself. There is so much inappropriate behaviour on FB - pregnancy news and death announcements - put them in the local paper, not FB.

But the worst and most inappropriate thing I've even seen posted on FB is when someone put photos of her stillborn baby on FB, that is a bridge too far for me.

[Sissy]

Who the fuck put a picture of their stillborn baby on facebook? That is seriously twisted!!!!

[Tanya]

That is awful!!!

[Steph]

It was terrible, I can't believe that anyone would think that that would be something your facebook "friends" would want to see, its far too personal.
Some people don't have that internal censorship filter.
She was promptly deleted but I can still picture it now.

[the odd broad]

I can't even imagine the reasoning behind the stillborn pics. That must have been so unexpected! And disturbing! My God.

I'm waiting for FB to add a "dislike" option too!

[Mortimer Snerd]

So that's what happened! I went to tag you in my old school album and you didn't have a page. BOO! I know what you mean, though. It's become all too addicting and out of control! Yet still I go back...LOL