But before I make any hasty decisions…Is there any serious drawbacks to not having it?
I won’t pretend to know what’s best for YOU, but when I delete my Facebook (2010 /2011) I felt like a million bucks after taxes.
In 2007, an married ex girlfriend within my relatively large social circle ( at the time ) suggested that I join. I put it off and then one day I joined. BIG mistake. As soon as I did….. she emailed and said “ha ha I knew you would cave”.
I emailed back, “that’s not a very nice welcome” and immediately un-friended her.
Very quickly, many old acquaintances added to my list but these were people who didn’t even say “hi” or “how have you been?” I found it to be very “voyeuristic” and it put a bad taste in my mouth.
… but I kept it anyway and some people made an effort to rekindle and catch up, because I thought it’s important to keep in touch with people you knew when you were younger. They are the best link to your past and the older you get, the more necessary this is.
BULLS~~~.
My life goes only in one direction. FORWARD.
I also realized that all “mystique” was GONE and I decided that I preferred to leave them wondering. I also found it to be a disgusting feminist cess-pool geared towards women and gays . . . . . and then one day, a VERY formerly cute girl I once dated posted a picture of her unwashed newborn on a steel tray. I thought was going to hurl. She behaved like “the first pregnant woman – ever”.
Then there was this bitch who my old friend proposed to, and she created a photo album of “HER RING” with 24 pictures in it, with no picture or mention of the man. I even wrote an essay on this and posted it ON FACEBOOK.
I began to pick these “friends” off my list , and asked myself which ones couldn’t I live happily without? Which ones would I live happily with? And I began to unfriend them one by one.
175 “friends” became ZERO.
MY REAL friends meant more to me than all of them.
In 2011 I got the hell out of there.
… and immediately after, I received emails from some of them asking why I wasn’t there anymore. But in the 4 years that I was, I barely heard from them or exchanged with them. They just wanted to peer into my business.
“Why are you not on Facebook anymore?”
I responded and lied – employing a happily off-the-grid strategy:
• “I still am. Just in the VIP lounge, Zuckerberg invite only”.
• “Because I am wanted in 23 states for “liking” too much on Facebook”.
• “I got kicked off”.
• “What a strange question”.
• “Because all the cool kids are on it.”
• “facebook is for women and gays”.
etc.
Is there any serious drawbacks to not having it?
In all of human history there was never any serious drawback for not being on Facebook and there still isn’t , and never will be. It can ONLY harm you.
In fact, I would say in 2012 there was a brief period were not being on facebook would get you strange looks from potential employers, but I realized it only made me more intriguing to them. At first it seemed like it could be a put off because they couldn’t spy, but I just said “Facebook is for time wasters” and they actually LIKED that about me.
Women will have a LOT of question and will constantly want to know what’s going on with you. But my policy is to never give a woman a direct answer to a question unless it is “no”. This policy has never once let me down. Answering the question has, even when it was a seemingly “innocent” question, which it never is.
Let them WONDER about you.
They don’t need to know.
If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.
DanceMyOwnWay 2 years, 8 months ago.
