Its been some days since I have deactivated my facebook account. People say I have missed out a lot in terms of updates from friends & distant family but is it really true?..well, not really!! [Will discuss it in different blog post]
I have also had a lot of my peers, friends asking me what were the exact reasons for me to leave – I never got around to answering them one-by-one so here I am with the explanation.
1. SPAM – I was getting a huge number of event/group/fanpage invitations. To say the least they were distracting and a big turn off.
2. Platform Longevity – Facebook won’t last forever… at-least not in its original form! It will continue to evolve will the web or actually it might just become a wrapper around the WWW.
3. Identity Crisis - I just could not relate to 600 odd friends in my friends list..(means I made sure I knew everyone personally before I connected with them but I really don’t care about what random guy ‘A’(who I never really got along with) had for dinner.
4. People who really need a life! or wait…thats Facebook - There are some people who will flood your life-stream with an update in every few seconds (others would just not show up) – dont forget the snake oil sellers [Become a fan of this page, join this community and blah group etc]
5. Productivity – I was wasting too much time on FB whereas I could have used the same time to surf the internet for more interesting content (learn something knew 0r break the myths). This one reminds me of a tweet by someone in my timeline
‘Facebook is like your refrigerator. You keep opening it up every few minutes when you get bored, hoping to find something new and exciting, but nothing’s ever different’
6. Narcissism – Facebook has made all of us a narcissist…Haven’t we all thought, “I’m going to post these awesome pics/posts/video and all my friends will comment on it or like it.” Its as good as saying , “Look at me! Look at me!”
7. Growth & Ownership – Final reason to ditch Facebook was in favour of my blog (Yup!! the one you are reading right now). Facebook owns your profile/page/data not you..if you don’t comply with their terms and conditions your Facebook page can be terminated whereas If you have a blog on your own domain then you own it and have total control.
These were some of the reasons which sort of forced to deactivate my FB account. They were conclusive enough for me – what about you? Let me know through comments..
PS – I am only temporarily away from FB and would be back on it soon.
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