I’ve just done something I hope I don’t regret…
I’ve closed down my facebook page. And let me tell you, it was incredibly cathartic. No more zombies, no more superwall requests, no more awkward exchanges of: “hi, long time no see”, “and you, we must meet up sometime”, “year sure”, “……..”, no more everyone knowing what i’m up to all the time and consequently having nothing to talk about at weddings.
It’s brilliant. Although, I’m now nervious about what happens when my wife discovers that she’s no longer married…
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Doc 30 Jan 2008
ReportNice one dm … although i’m worried this is rapidly becoming the Facebook blog … i couldn’t resist these two links …
Pension book
http://www.johncow.us/misc/30yearsfacebook.html
Bad Facebook
http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/
Stephen Pirrie 30 Jan 2008
ReportI am getting unexpected pleasure from killing off FB “friends” I never actually communicate with but accepted in my Facebook honeymoon early last year. i wonder if Im also on the way to a FB divorce…
MiRiaM 30 Jan 2008
ReportI find very interesting and fun at the same time to study this FB decadence in the UK, when, antipodal to it, in the rest of Europe-or at least in Italy- FB is just starting to steal soul and time of thousands of people as the “coolest’ innovation of the moment.
I have lived the FB boom in London (as spectator, as I have always hated the idea of people being curious to put their nose into my affairs - I don’t like being spied. I had to open a page just to feel “socially” accepted!) and I now participate to his pitiless murder by hand of its ex-addicted lovers.
Detox time here // Contamination abroad
It is incredible how its late echo is proliferating and affecting only now European people. While in the UK someone says “Facebook is So Last Year….”, all my Italian friends are starting to invite me to become their FB friends. Same old story…
Again, “FB is the revolution”. And they think they are discovering the hot water.
“Sorry, you are a bit late, It’s so out of fashion here” I smile feeling superior.
But, thinking about, it is incredible how standardized is this “FaceBook” virus: it starts influencing people in one country, it absorbs everything, generates community and, slowly, it passes away. Then, they hate it, as in London now. They want to kill it.
I am a bit scared now, because I suspect that this virus moves across countries, migrating around the world to create new victims.
Will FB be still alive in 2 years, and if so, who knows where?