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I decided that I am going to take a break from Facebook for a while, so I took the proper steps to deactivate my account. You ask, “Why don’t you just, well, not visit the site anymore?” The sad truth is that visiting a lot of these social sites have become habitual — I find myself looking at the same times of day, checking whenever I get an email notice and especially when I could be focusing on much more productive things (ie., starting to blog on a regular basis again). Deactivation will just act as aid in break.

This doesn’t mean that I am giving up on social media all together. In fact, I still love Twitter (and a handful of others), get much more satisfaction from it and probably enjoy the people on there more than a lot of my real friends. I don’t mean for that to be a smack in the face to those friends, but the people I truly care about know how to directly reach me. And the others aren’t going to contact me with an overload of pointless updates, post every picture they ever take or poke me.

I doubt I will miss Facebook very much, mainly because I didn’t have a problem living my life before it. This in no way means I won’t be back; I know I will. They always come back, I’m sure. But for the meantime, I think it is time to focus my energies on a few more important things/projects and take a deep breath of fresh air.

This whole idea really feels like Spring cleaning. That is just one more application I can remove from my phone (I cleared it to bare minimum the other day).

I am free!