I haven't had a Facebook for about six months now. And it's great. I know that Andrew and Henna would like to take credit for me deleting my account but I can truly only give them partial credit. What happened was that Andrew was finding his Facebook to be too distracting and his grades weren't great so he deleted it. Henna then jumped right on that bandwagon and deleted hers too. I had been drifting apart from Facebook for some time because I felt that it was becoming too complicated. There were too many damn changes and things kept on becoming more and more unnecessarily... complicated. So when I saw Andrew delete his Facebook, it gave me the strength to delete mine, and for that I thank him. Basically Henna had no part in me deleting my Facebook account. Yeah, fuck you Henna. You heard.
Anyway, let's talk about the implications of a Facebook free lifestyle. Deleting Facebook today is like moving out to Walden pond. You're disconnected from the world and, you know what, it's kind of nice. I'm not always checking Facebook every ten minutes while I do my homework. Honestly the only thing that I might miss about Facebook is chatting with friends but why talk with people online when you can talk to them in person?? You see, I'm a huge fan of the whole transcendentalist thought movement. You probably noticed my Walden reference (look at me! I know famous literary works!) but I actually do have a huge respect for his dedication to transcendentalism. I wish that I had the balls to completely remove myself from society but a lot of teenagers tried that in the 60's and it really led to nowhere so I'll pass. As for my Facebook experiment, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. I'm starting to actually cut back in other sorts of electronic means like texting and video game playing as well. I don't know whether it's good or bad that I'm falling out with all of these technologies but I still know how to use them just the same so up to this point it hasn't made that much of a difference to me. It feels so free not having to check all of that bullshit all of the time. I plan on carrying this behavior over into the summer becuase my goals for this summer are to mainly spend a lot of time outside and with my friends. If I'm having face-to-face conversations and interactions all the time, why the hell would I need an Asspamphlet (see what I did there? Eh?).
So that's pretty much how I feel about the matter. Less digital interactions means more time spent doing things in real life so I'm not sure why anybody would rather spend their time inside on the computer rather than out doin' some real life shit!
Anyway, let's talk about the implications of a Facebook free lifestyle. Deleting Facebook today is like moving out to Walden pond. You're disconnected from the world and, you know what, it's kind of nice. I'm not always checking Facebook every ten minutes while I do my homework. Honestly the only thing that I might miss about Facebook is chatting with friends but why talk with people online when you can talk to them in person?? You see, I'm a huge fan of the whole transcendentalist thought movement. You probably noticed my Walden reference (look at me! I know famous literary works!) but I actually do have a huge respect for his dedication to transcendentalism. I wish that I had the balls to completely remove myself from society but a lot of teenagers tried that in the 60's and it really led to nowhere so I'll pass. As for my Facebook experiment, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. I'm starting to actually cut back in other sorts of electronic means like texting and video game playing as well. I don't know whether it's good or bad that I'm falling out with all of these technologies but I still know how to use them just the same so up to this point it hasn't made that much of a difference to me. It feels so free not having to check all of that bullshit all of the time. I plan on carrying this behavior over into the summer becuase my goals for this summer are to mainly spend a lot of time outside and with my friends. If I'm having face-to-face conversations and interactions all the time, why the hell would I need an Asspamphlet (see what I did there? Eh?).
So that's pretty much how I feel about the matter. Less digital interactions means more time spent doing things in real life so I'm not sure why anybody would rather spend their time inside on the computer rather than out doin' some real life shit!
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