So facebook is now deactivated, but all that's needed is one moment of weakness - a simple sign in and its back up and running. I'm not entirely sure how happy I am about that...
When you flush a toilet you want the poo to go, and remain gone. There's no sentimentality with it - it should just be gone, and every time you go back to the toilet you want to start fresh. You don't want to grab the old poop and just throw it back in the bowl. Facebook didn't give me the flush I was looking for! As quoted from Geoff in Coupling, I have an "unflushable".
Even now in the few minutes after the "deactivation" event occurred, there is a compulsion to go back and reactive just to see if its all the same. Is it nostalgia? Could our generations limited attention spans really mean that sentiment and nostalgia can be linked to the longing for social interaction on a web page designed to exploit our curiosity?
It became habitual, open FireFox and load up facebook. Now I open FireFox and read the news, but even that feels as though there is something missing. Who would have thought that not visiting a website could be likened to stopping smoking. All the more reason to leave.
Well the way forward is hopefully going to mean less meaningless status updates in exchange for real thoughts and opinions, hours of pointless stalking in exchange for what I hope will be hours of reading.
Of course I'm a dreamer and a wanker to think that my thoughts are more significant or have more worth than any status update. Or even to think that enough people would care or be interested enough to subscribe to my blog, but that's just it - I left facebook because it was too immediate in seeking other peoples opinion. I didn't post that I was leaving facebook so people could say "goodbye" or "I'll miss you" - like fuck - you hadn't missed me for the period prior to facebook AND its not like we had physically caught up since it began!? I was doing so in order to stay in touch with those that wanted to.
The only thing facebook has over blogging is the ability to block people. Privacy setting were good - and now the true stalkers can come to the surface.
This time I will not be posting photos of me in the nude.
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