Sure, that's all fine and dandy, but how do you stalk old girlfriends? How do you share pictures of what you ate for lunch? And most importantly, how do you unfriend people?

I keep in touch with friends and family who don't live nearby. Folks I've "friended" in forums and support groups. Maybe I'm fortunate, but I've never really had to deal with vaguebookers, drama queens or any of the facebook BS most people complain about. Like anything else, it is what you make of it and who you choose to surround yourself with. On and offline. It's a tool for communication, but you don't have to be a slave to it if you don't want to. If retiring your account has made you happier than kudos to you!

You'll be invited to less events but soon realise that those events never meant anything to you anyway.

The best was when my friend had to update an event on facebook as our current location changed. No one from Facebook showed up to the event, it was all non-social media people waiting for her to come back and join the conversation. It was hilarious that we had to take a moment for the social media crowd who clicked maybe with no intention of coming.

Anyway, I've been off for over a year, I love it and I appreciate contacting friends and family through email and phone way more. I find that I am more genuine.

Fuck face book liv life. Welom to the reel world well We still got one. Seen it rune a lot of frends and famly. If you cant call or visit once and a wile i can under stand. I had tride it 20 Years ago and shit hit the fan becous I had just tride to keep with famly and work not frends cuz I dont need to wat theheck thay are doing every darn frickn Day and thay dnt need to know My bizzness Right life is short is way longer with out Crap Book in My life thank you verey Much. Ya") O and I hate wen eneyone sess you on face book thay know with the l(¤)(¤)K on My FACE is a NO" Get Reel Stay Reel. Face Time That "(LMFAO)" TTFN.

and unfortunately im one of those idiot slaves for it. and I really truly hate that I love it so damn much. reading your confession and these comments, are making me think in the right mind. yea friends come and go, skype is a great way to stay connected without all the constant status update bullshit.lol. i should go on my fb and round all the true friends up, to get skype, and just say fuck facebook, i'll only be on skype. though i don't own a cell phone right now, long story there, having a cell phone would be really helpful in contacting friends as well, through phone calls and texting i guess. think i'll wait til i get a new phone again and can do that. til then i'll round up the true closer friends for skype! Hmmm Thanks for the insight on this!

It's even designed to keep you obsessively checking it. I'm never going back either.

Wish I could share this, but alas- I also deleted my Gloatbook.

No stalking, no lurking, no ex-girlfriend chasing. None whatsoever. Haven't done any one of those. I'm hoping that my page deactivated on its own. Unless they made some new updates that prevents it from doing it.
Technically, you can't have more than 120-150 friends at a given time and many don't even rekindle in any given future time (read Oxford anthropologist Robin Dunbar's research). A lot of friendships made on facebook are not friendships at all. The word "friend" is abused a lot because of this social media cancer. It's out there, being marketed, with no substance behind it.
Happy to be back in the real world and consolidating my relationships. I did suffer from the withdrawal syndromes at the very beginning, but kept at it, and it's gone now.