deactivating facebook

Yes, that's right. I'm contemplating the unthinkable. I know a few of you have done this before, but the urge is finally spreading to me.

I thinking about deactivating my Facebook account.

It's been over 4 years and I'm kinda getting sick of it. It's not so much the changes but the habit that "checking facebook" forms. And there's really no reason for that. Yea it might present some less-than-convenient situations, but hey we'll see. I'm not sure about the decision yet. I'm the kind that thinks about these kinds of decisions for a reeeally long time. That's probably a downfall sometimes.

But I did click on the deactivate button just to check it out. And I thought the next screen was hilarious.

Crap, that's probably too small to see. But in just one attempt to discourage deactivation, facebook reminds me that my 243 friends (I've been downsizing quite a bit lately...the first step to deactivation maybe?) will miss me. And to prove that, it picks random pictures of me with friends to show how much of the social networking that I will miss out on. (Plus they are all seemingly happy memories photos, I wonder how they worked that out.) Regardless of whether they will personally miss me or not, I now have facebook-supported information that Andrew Madsen, Chad Christensen, Grace Waitt, Julianne Salisbury and Jeremiah Ritter will personally miss my existence on facebook.