niteshade925 replied to your post: As long as I’m sitting here sick and weak on the...
Same on Facebook. I deactivated mine almost 2 years ago and I don’t miss it at all. I never kept contact when the people I knew anyway.
The thing is, the people I most want to keep contact with are people I text, call, or email on a regular basis anyhow! I don't even need Facebook to get in touch with them. Most of my "friends" are acquaintances from college or even high school, or grad school, and while it's kind of nice to see what they're up to, when push comes to shove, none of them are people I can count on for anything at all. I'm not even all that interested in what they're up to! I sort of had an epiphany this summer, when I spent some time with a relative I had unfriended over politics and it was kind of nice having stuff to talk about-- the kind of routine day to day stuff you usually post about on Facebook. But because we weren't FB friends, it was all stuff we could talk about so we didn't have to talk about politics. And I have the experience often of getting together with good friends and still feeling like there's nothing to talk about because we all know what each other has been up to anyhow. I was thinking of letting the people I actually want to stay in touch with know how to keep in touch with me and just deactivating, but then I remembered that one hobby group that is really important to me. I really want to participate in that group. So, I'll stay on Facebook, but I'll probably just start ignoring it more.
