I deleted my Facebook account today and it was long overdue. Here are the reasons:
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0It was a frivolous time sink. I can think of many other things I can do or should be doing.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Corporate Facebook is not to be trusted. I\u2019d rather trust the NSA with my personal data.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Just another attack vector for hackers and cyber threats.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Who needs propaganda when you have Facebook? Social media is the propagation of disinformation and half baked news. No one reads books anymore or the real news for that matter.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Benign posts were mostly of idle glimpses or what my friend\u2019s kids were doing, easily summarized in conventional year end newsletter. It was rare that a benign post might also be interesting.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Malignant posts made unilateral remarks about traditional people, particularly men, fathers and husbands, lampooning conservatives, Christians and traditional values all while claiming to be tolerant. At first I thought Facebook might be the marketplace of ideas among rational and respecting persons. No\u2014it\u2019s basically a high school food fight.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0George Takai. I never friended Sulu but would still get his crap on my newsfeed anyhow. I wonder if he weren\u2019t gay would people find him as interesting.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0My own posts, as creative and rare as I tried to make them, were seldom liked or commented and then by my immediate family. With some streams, I\u2019m sure they got lost in the noise, and there is a lot of noise.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The temptation to argue, fight and eventually transgress was too great for me. I have little self-control, especially when it comes to *(*&$# imbeciles who parrot whatever they read in the New York Times, the Mary Sue or Gawker.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lack of reciprocity. I unfriended people who I liked \/ commented on their posts with no indication that they ever cared or saw anything I did.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0It amazes me that grown men and women feel the need to use, let alone type, profanity, indicative of a society that is out of ideas, civility and language skills.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A lot of my very smart friends don\u2019t use Facebook. I think they are on to something.
\nAccording to policy, my account will be dead in 14 days. I\u2019ll check to make sure it really is so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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