Said bookmark. On a side note, isn't the new theme just exquisitely designed?
Five days ago, you could say I committed the gravest of social media sins by deleting my Facebook account.
I have yet to fully acclimate to my new, non-Facebook life.
For instance, if my Google Reader should run dry and my Twitter feed update slowly, I’m tempted to click on that Facebook bookmark. I want to click on it. The mouse goes to it, like a ship’s crew to the sound of a siren’s song.
Then I remember I deleted my account, and it all comes back to me.
Even though my use had decreased considerably, Facebook was a great way to pass the time. Facebook’s Statistics provide a staggering glimpse of the truly horrendous time suck that it actually is: “People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.” I believe that’s all 400 million users. Divide out that number and you get a lot of time spent on one website.
Bored and nothing to read? Go read random Facebook status updates. Of course, most of the updates were mundane items that really didn’t add anything to my life. Instead of catching up on world affairs, I was reading passive-aggressive song lyrics and “Johnny likes rubber duckies, Madonna and Sports Illustrated.” This is one of the reasons I enjoy Twitter—many of the people I follow tweet interesting links to news and random tidbits of information that I would otherwise not find.
So far, I have received one email asking me what happened to my Facebook. The sender is not on Twitter, so they wouldn’t have known. Otherwise, not much activity on that front.
Not having an account has also made it difficult to look at specific pages on Facebook. This is what I fear will draw me to create a dummy account to view these pages. It’s why I haven’t deleted that bookmark. And it’s precisely because I haven’t deleted that bookmark that I keep gravitating to click on the link. In terms of my eye movements, it always goes first to my SMU email and then to Facebook. It’s a habit.
I need to rearrange my bookmarks. Or just delete the one in question. Because I know I made the right decision in deleting my Facebook.
Although perhaps going cold turkey wasn’t the best idea.
