Goodbye Facebook, it’s been 3 months and I don’t miss you

Reasons I’m disconnecting from Facebook

1. I don’t visit it often anymore, maybe 2-3 times a week
2. It’s hard even for a technologist like me to keep track of new privacy settings that I have to actively manage
3. It’s not something I’m proud to tell my child
4. I’ve been on the fence about leaving anyways
5. The final straw is reading the NY Times articles about other people also leaving and reminding me to do it
6. It encourages short messages much like twitter, so why not just use twitter?
7. Since I do blog on WordPress, why not just blog?

Facebook made it difficult to remove myself

1. First try deactivate, but it emailed me that I can reactivate anytime in the future. Which meant my info is still there
2. Then I search for ‘delete Facebook’ and found a permanent delete option.

It’s been 3 months and I don’t miss you.

T