Falling out with Facebook

Today I decided to deactivate my FB account. I contemplated deleting it but I've spent so much time on it for the past four years and made wee memories there with my friends, real and virtual alike, as terribly sad as that sounds. Besides, I have quite a lot of photos there that I haven't backup'd yet so I'm afraid I am not ready to part ways with FB permanently just yet.

I don't really know what suddenly made me do it but it sure feels liberating! Perhaps it's the wanting to know who actually notices, if any at all save my mother. Perhaps it's simply boredom. It could even be for no reason at all! Maybe not. I never really do anything without a reason. Oftentimes it's something silly, other times plain stupid, but a reason nevertheless.

Maybe I've realised how much time I spend on it since FB mobile is quite handy when my son takes his day nap in my arms. Maybe I want to do something more worthy of my time, like blog which I haven't been doing much as of late. Or I could read more books without FB notifications interrupting me. I could even spend the time talking and singing to my son since he enjoys being talked to a lot more now that he can babble back at me. I could spend it petting Taz more, too. Indeed there is a hundred things more worth somebody's time than FB or any social networking website. But I think I'm taking a break from it because I am such a frank and transparent person that I may not be able to keep myself from posting my real feelings on there. If there is anything I hate the most, that is people who whine, moan, complain and slag people off on Facebook. Somehow they have it in their head that it's their God-given right to have snide digs at people who aren't even on their friends list. I always believed that people who don't have the balls pick fights on FB because really, if you have half the balls of a lone sewer rat you'd talk to the person face-to-face or message them privately. Facebook is simply not the place to hung ones dirty laundry for everyone to gawk and gossip about whilst they dry.

I am in a bit of a vulnerable situation just at the moment and that status update bar is really tempting sometimes. I can see why people do it but that doesn't mean I'm prepared to stoop to such level. I suppose deactivating it is a good idea. If I am to make a list of pros and cons there won't be much contest between the two People who are truly bothered about me know my email and mobile number and likewise for the people I'm truly bothered with.
I will certainly be back but I will hold out as long as possible and who knows, by some miracle, I might leave it for good. I don't really know.

At this point I am in a box that says FRAGILE. Writing will see me through. And of course, my little angel on Earth. xXx