Favorite Quotation

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
...Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson

Monday, May 9, 2011

Leaving Facebook

Over the past 12 hours when I posted that I was leaving Facebook I have received more messages and email and texts with everyone views on why I should stay or go. Let me more fully explain my reason for leaving Facebook at this time.

First, I find my self spending way to much time on Facebook. When I started using Facebook I did not limit how much time I spent on it or even pay attention to what I was doing. I do not like that I can just sit there and let a couple of hours go by and at the end of it not really know what I have been doing... I mean really how much is there of substance to do on Facebook? Not much. There are random stupid games that you can play.. most of which I stopped playing a long time ago. There are friends pictures and status to look at but that should only take about 5 minutes a day... if that. Not a whole lot of worthwhile things to do.

Second, Facebook Stalking, how often do I find my self looking over every detail of someones profile.. way too often. I do like that I can "learn" too much information about someone else just by looking at their online page. You should have to work to get to know someone. You should also learn the reasons of why they like or dislike something. Facebook can take a lot of the fun of knowing someone out of the picture. I don't like that I do it to others or that others can Facebook Stalk me. Yes I know there are privacy settings that I can change so that not one can see any information about me but for now I need to remove my account so that when and if I start using Facebook again I will setup what I do and when, for how long and how often.

Third, I am sick of stupid people. Looking at the past Facebook updates of my "friends" I have added a lot of people that I do not really know to my Facebook. These people tell their friends to add me and then I get requests from hundreds of people that I do not even know and it never stops. Rather than going through and deleting them one by one deleting my account will allow me to start fresh and only add those who I know or want to talk to. The random please that I at one time friend on Facebook are also the ones that are always sending random App requests... I generally don't use the Facebook Apps. I don't want a farm or a mob or any other stupid game.

I know that this means that some of you will not read my blog or stay in contact with me but we will live. If someone really wants to get into contact with me there are ways and I would be happy to talk or get together and cook or have fun.

Just not on Facebook for the time being. If you want to get a hold of me leave a comment on the blog and I will be able to respond or send you an e-mail.

Love you all and Facebook will be deleted Wednesday morning. 
Posted by Derek at 5:18 PM

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