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Bye bye Facebook

Posted: February 6th, 2009 | Author: Panos Karageorgakis | Filed under: Personal, Social Media, Web | Tags: , , | 4 Comments »

I have finally decided to delete my Facebook account. I could write a long post analyzing this decision, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll just quote a short note that I’m going to publish on my Facebook wall.

I have decided to leave Facebook. I never really liked it in the first place. It was fun commenting on your photos and your status messages, learning all those little details about you that I never really cared for and watching you throwing Britney Spears’ to each other.

I won’t miss the myriads of utterly useless groups you’ll continue to become members of, nor the bazillions of ugly applications cluttering your “walls”. And I’m pretty sure Facebook won’t hire a designer before either cold fusion replaces oil or Google hires one.

I am going to delete my account on February the 27th, a day after my birthday. This way you can all wish me happy birthday by writing on my wall and save the phone call or sms! (That is, before Facebook reads this note, gets mad and kicks me out of it before that date!)

I am jumping off the social crap wagon, but you’ll still be able to find me on Twitter (@Karageorgakis). That is, until I delete myself from there too, but I don’t think this will happen pretty soon.

I urge you to re-consider your goals in your everyday time-wasting habits and ponder the question of whether you need to create detailed records of your lives on some (rich by now) twenty-something guy’s servers. I won’t do that anymore.

So take care, have fun and be well. I hope to see you in the real world.

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4 Comments on “Bye bye Facebook”

  1. 1 Rob said at 6:17 pm on February 11th, 2009:

    Bravo.

  2. 2 Chandler said at 7:55 pm on February 11th, 2009:

    Just stumbled across this, but congrats. I’ve been meaning to do that for a long while. Everytime I go to, something stops me. Hmm.

  3. 3 spdd said at 6:01 pm on February 17th, 2009:

    agree 100%… been meaning to do the same, BUT there’s just one reason stopping me, that being business…

    when that is over, delete is one click away…

  4. 4 railduck said at 11:45 am on February 21st, 2009:

    Way to go man! That’s the spirit!

    And since you are obviously Greek, perhaps you may be so kind as to read and comment our point on Facebook, stated here:
    http://timetoleave.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/ta-einai-kai-ta-fainesthai/

    Way to freaking go!


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