The end of Facebook

So, I had been toying around with removing my Facebook account.
I went inactive for a while, then just up and de-activated it.

My conclusion, I got tired of the social network, plugged in, worn out, redundant, sifting through garbage, day in and day out of it all.

FB is neat, it's interesting, it's nice being "connected" to people in a sense, seeing what's going on with people etc. etc., but I'm not one that thrives on that, I don't need it, don't seek it. I'm more of a solitude kind of person, I don't mind it, find it nice a lot of times and really end up finding myself to keep myself occupied with. If you're by yourself, who else do you have but yourself? Plus, in today's day and age there's plenty of things to think about, dwell on, meditate on, figure out, think through and deal with.

One of the things I got tired of on FB was the constant updates by the same people about either the same stuff or some other meaningless stuff. I don't care about your dog, about your sports team or about someone who was rude to you.

Too much junk to filter through and such a waste of time dealing with it and managing it.

I did like it for some of the updates I would read. About contributing to others posts, being able to say a quick "hello" of some sort. I did like being plugged in from a distance, but a far distance. I have found myself on occasion thinking - I'll check FB. I do wonder, am I missing anything? Am I missing any interesting, useful, of value updates I would normally like to know about? I can imagine things going on, finding out about them later and someone saying - well, it was on FB!

I know a few people who aren't on FB and when I was on would think - oh I want to post to so and so, but oh yeah they aren't on. I know they would hear stuff about what was on FB and probably be interested, but for one reason or another resisted.

Now I'm one of those, but having had been on there I wonder, does anyone even notice you're gone when you leave? I mean realistically out of the hundreds of friends I'm sure people have on average, do they notice? Do they care? Does it matter? Probably not. I just hope those people don't think I de-friended them for some reason, you know because of the potential drama that can cause :o)