I deleted Facebook after vacation was over. I’m done with the Facebook-era paradigm that makes people feel like they should stay in contact and be “friends” just because you knew them for some period of time or went to school with them. There is no need for this. The people that matter in life will never be far from touch. Cutting losses and maturing into something greater than what we were is my mission, and I surround myself with people who feel the same way. While I was in town, I was getting messages endlessly from people who I’d all but forgotten. People I graduated with but was never friends with, old girlfriends, old “friends” who are now raising 6 kids with pill whores… they all wanted to hang out with me and they were angry with me when I didn’t get to see them. I couldn’t stop asking myself why these people wanted to see me. I had no desire to see them, and yet they seemed so emotionally effected by the fact that I chose not to respond to them or see them. Is it because they’re trying to get some vicarious experience of what living life is all about? Is it because they’re so obsessed with Facebook that they really believe that everyone on their friends list are actually their friends? I think it’s both.

Even after I cut my friends list down to ~250 people who I thought I may like or could stand to be around, I was still inundated with things people had shared or liked that I had no interest in. Friend requests from people I never wanted to think about again. I had enough. I no longer needed this anchor to my past. There are elements of my past I will always hold dear, and things about my home I will always miss, but Facebook was baggage of my old life that I was trying to shed still hanging on for dear life, clinging to remain relevant. I can store photos on my flash drives or dropbox for myself to enjoy without needing likes and shares and approval from people I do not give a s~~~ about anymore. I said goodbye and it’s been great. Aside from being less distracted at work, I’ve found great new websites to browse! This very site, Art of Manliness, /r/Redpill, and others. The internet doesn’t feel stale and boring to me anymore. It feels new and exciting again, and it feels great to post with people that though I don’t know, are more like-minded to me than all of the people I left behind to rot on Facebook. Goodbye, social media, I don’t miss you at all.

Validation from those we could care less about is a waste of time. Perhaps they did want the brief instance of living vicariously through you. Or perhaps they wanted something more sinister, as in to cipher resources from you over the long haul. The beauty of your decision is that you will never know, and never have to deal with it, or succumb to the treachery.

I dropped facebook along time ago. I just didn’t need it. It served no purpose, and was utterly invasive. I even took it a step further and ditched the TV and put a bookshelf in it’s place. Albeit it may seem a little extreme, but I tell you, a plethora of time has been freed up to learn many new things, traits, and timing for opportunities that would have not presented themselves otherwise. That’s time that would of been spent learning absolutely nothing and being fed lies through media and entertainment.

Long story short. Good choice Bro. You’ve got my vote.

I don’t miss either.  I realized how much I was missing by keeping them in my life.  Both of them made me a dumber person anyway

One guy here a while ago likened it to having a sewer pipe running to your living room.

There is no way to unplug if you still have these things.

1984 is already happening.

Luddite?  Nope.  I’ve been in the IT field for 25 years.  Don’t feel like being a slave to technology.  Always know where the power button is.