Ok, I just can't take it any more. Not one more trophy for being the bestest friend ever. Not one more invite to play the mind numbing games of Farmville or Mafia Wars and not one more piece of earth shattering news such as "I'm eating a turkey sandwich, YUM!". If anyone wanted proof of the inanity that now passes for popular human culture, Facebook would be enough. Like a colony of millions of mindless ants building tunnels to nowhere, people make connections to others, not to make any kind of meaningful dialog, but instead, just for the sake of making the connections themselves. simply to increase their number of friends, because this is the only measure of self worth some people have. Like ants briefly pausing to exchange pheromones, before moving on to the next one in line to repeat the same thing.
People might say well it's still good to keep contact with distant family and friends, but it's all an illusion folks. People you didn't contact outside of FB, you still don't talk to on FB, but worse is that people that you used to talk to outside FB, with an email or a phone call from time to time, you might not do so now because, of course, you're already on each other's friends list, and you know what TV show they watched last night. Surely a phone call would be overkill.
Anyway I'm glad I'm gone. I feel clean and free again, but then it always feels good to get some distance on the herd.
