Fed Up Of Wasting Time On Facebook
Written on April 29, 2008 by Tezza
I never did participate in the craze of MySpace and I managed to fend off Facebook for a great deal of time until I one day too succumbed to the growing phenomenon. While social networking sites can prove to be a wonderful networking tool for some, I’ve personally found that it is largely just a waste of precious time.
The people I already want to stay in contact with already exist on my phone and email list so adding them again to Facebook seemed almost a redundant step. Throw in privacy concerns that have been circulating about Facebook, the fact that acquaintances can now track you far too easily, the time wasting application requests that you get daily and the benefits of Facebook quickly start to diminish.
So just the other day I decided to delete my Facebook account and join the small minority who’ve given Facebook the flick.
While deactivating your Facebook account is straightforward enough, it keeps all your personal information on Facebook’s servers and thus people can still tag you in photos and invite you to events like you were still a fully functioning Facebook member. Until recently deleting your Facebook account was a logistical nightmare having to manually delete your comments, untag photos, leave the networks and groups you’ve joined and any other trace you have on Facebook.
Thankfully Facebook has listened to it’s disgruntled members and have offered a convenient way to delete your Facebook account once and for all. You can email the staff at Facebook at privacy@facebook.com from the email address associated with your account and they can take care of the deletion for you.
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spot on tezza… =)
Thankfully I canceled my myspace account a long time ago! Although… i haven’t had the heart to cancel my facebook account yet lol
Komodo, luckily i never joined the myspace band wagon so saved me having to close that account down.
I totally agree with you on this one Terence.
Before I do anything I like to avoid mess and problems. Often I ask myself “Would this cause me more problems and mess?” When Facebook arrived, I realized that I would be spending time on replying emails and all sort of things which is not aligned with my goals. If I don’t have other goals to accomplish, why not ey? but I have other plans and doing something that’s not aligned with my goals would only slow me down.
Everwhere I go, “hey are you on facebook?”…. I happily reply , “No” lol
Breian, Thats a wonderful philosophy and certainly that would cut out all the useless distractions in your life. I did hold out on facebook for quite sometime until i realised so many pictures of our get togethers with friends were ending up on facebook and i wanted to see. But with all the distractions that comes with facebook even that isnt enough of an incentive for me to keep it going. =)
haha … i agree wholeheartedly. facebook is a big time consumer of my free time and itis just so … addictive