Delete Facebook
By Ian Scott
May 19, 2010
I deactivated my Facebook profile on March 8, 2010. Admittedly, there are times I miss it – especially to play Lexulous. But Facebook became a major distraction for me in many different ways. There were times I was making Lexulous moves when I should have been working. There were times when things that I posted were taken out of context by others. There were times when others would post things and they would be taken out of context. Sometimes, the digital word loses a lot (or gains way too much meaning) than the spoken word. Or even words in a book where there is much more context available to read.
There were some advantages to Facebook as well, for sure. I got back in touch with friends I’ve not seen in years and could keep up with their lives. I managed to organize a “mini-reunion” of my high school soccer team partly through Facebook. And I was also able to do a wee bit of promoting of my fly fishing website.
Many have privacy concerns about Facebook as well and recently, a “movement” was started to encourage people to leave Facebook all together. In the Toronto Star today, there is an article discussing this movement and points out that the website, quitfacebookday.com has signed up 6,200 committed quitters.
The article also quotes web technologist, Joe Dee:
““People get hurt,’’ explains web technologist Joe Dee, Milan’s partner in QuitFaceBookDay.com. “It’s one of those things that you don’t think about until somebody near you gets really burned — until you get one of these stories that your friend got fired, or a relationship got destroyed or somebody has been stalked, or one of these worst-case scenarios — you won’t understand the implications of sharing that much.’’”
The goal of Dee and his associates is to make aware the issues of Facebook and have as many people as possible persuaded to quit the social website on Monday, May 31, 2010.
Well, they can count me as a Facebook quitter already as I don’t think I’ll be going back to it before May 31.
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