22.00 Monday. I removed myself from facebook. For good. I wiped myself out, wondering as I did how I would vanish from my friends’ ‘friends’ list. Would I just not be there? Would my picture fade (like in ‘Back to The Future’)? Would I crumble into ash at the bottom of the browser window? Or would I stay there, mute and unreachable?
I’d only been on a few weeks and only had 18 or 19 friends, but in that short time, I had grown very uncomfortable with the vortex that is facebook. Hungry, needy, demanding is how it felt to me and I’m quite relieved to be out of it.
Why ? I feel the same way and have avoided it. Yet, professionals like Michael Port (of Book Yourself Solid fame) is using it for marketing his business. I don’t know – it makes me feel vulnerable as anyone can see who you are linkked to unlike Linked in where linking is controlled and by invitation.