So last night I quit Facebook. Does this mean I'm not cool? Am I destined to live in social networking obscurity? Perhaps...
But here is what won't happen:
1) People from my past coming out of the woodwork who want to catch up 20 years later
2) Questions like: "Are you the Steve who went to such and such a school?" Perhaps this would be less of a problem if I had a more unique name like "Bagel Zipperstein"
3) No more free virtual gift offers from the Hannukah store
I did find the deactivation process interesting. When you press the link they ask why you want to do such a dastardly thing. When I picked the "I don't think this is useful" it suggested I needed more friends and provided links to the friend-finder (or whatever it is called). Clearly I don't have enough friends to pummel me with "Bob is eating toast" messages so that I'm unaware of how much of my life is ticking by reading about Bob's enjoyment of toast.
It also showed pictures from my existing friend network saying how much they would miss me. While "Roger will miss you!" with a picture of him holding a fish ALMOST made me reconsider, I decided instead to just call him and have lunch from time to time rather than continue a more virtualized relationship.
I guess this will make me less cool to/than my teen cousins and nephews, but what can I say? I also don't like High School Musical (1|2|3).
So what say you? Crazy? Have I put a virtual bullet in my social networking social life? Used the entree fork for my salad?
Maybe I'm just a mean old man... now get off my lawn!
