It’s coming up to four weeks since I decided to ditch the Facebook thing, for good. The idea of living aspects of social psychology in virtual space doesn’t really appeal to me. So I don’t have any plans to return to it.
Some interesting things.
- No one remembered my birthday because I had no facebook. Except for three people who don’t even live in Brisbane. Not including family. ;o
- Some people thought I deleted them, and were visibly disturbed when they questioned me in person. (sad)
- My idle time (which was facebook time) is now replaced with more productive and meaningful things. Like work.
- I am now socially dead to a lot of people, even though they have my number and email. If you really want to not abuse the social convenience of Facebook to stalk my life, then you can call or email anytime.
But don’t go out of your way, really.
Although it could be a good tool to shape your whole ‘image’ to a social mass, in the end it’s better to do this in person. It was fun to explore at the start, and to watch it grow, however I believe it can also be a mass social conditioning tool which will threaten the privacy and individuality of the future, for a lot of people.
The tricky thing is how to incorporate the business aspect of my life into Facebook, when I refuse to make an account. A twitter is fine too. ;o