enough of facebook!

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yesterday i did the unspeakable. 4 years of facebook friends, all removed in about.. 5 minutes? yes. i removed every single one of my friends on there. why would i do this, you may be wondering - well heres the simple truth:

Facebook is evil!

ok perhaps that statement is over the top but over the years i've noticed friendships weaken when facebook is involved. when you add someone on facebook you ultimately let them browse your life, what you do, what you like, what you watch, who do you talk to, where do you go, who your family are, what your religious beliefs are, if you're single or if you're gay or if you're a hannibal etc etc etc....

sensitive information you would not normally reveal to friends are all there - assuming you've filled in your profile! that information could potentially be accessed by anyone, regardless of the privacy settings offered by facebook.

another thing i've noticed is that potential friends, or really good friends which you've met in real life or even over the internet - once you add them onto your friends list over at facebook, the chemistry dies!

it feels like you're wasting so much of your 'free time' browsing pages and pages worth of profiles, chat histories, connections between people, sweeping pictures of someone else's holiday snaps, and peering into things posted on people's profiles like songs, tags, notes, polls and so on. the obsession with knowing everything consumes the user to the point where communication is no longer required with friends. this detrimental habit that i must admit, i have also developed over the years has to stop!

this is why i did what i did. to make myself better, to free up my 'free time' to do more meaningful things which i truly enjoy - would make me happier as a person. facebook has taken a chunk out of my life and i would like compensation (if that's even possible!)

i really hope that more people would realise the horrors of facebook and break the addictive power facebook has and concentrate on what really matters.

thanks for reading :3