{"id":3225,"date":"2010-06-05T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/edgewiseblog\/why-im-leaving-facebook\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T04:14:53","slug":"why-im-leaving-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/edgewiseblog\/why-im-leaving-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Leaving Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I leave Facebook, let me tell you what I\u2019ll miss. I enjoy the daily contact I have with my Facebook friends. I feel a connection to them \u2013 to you \u2013 and their daily activities. At times, I feel I\u2019m at a big party with all my friends, roaming around, listening to different conversations, dropping in and out as I please. Facebook is very different from email and instant messaging. That said, I hope each of my Facebook friends will send me email<\/a> to make certain I have your address; send me your IM and Skype info, too, if you wish. Because, I won\u2019t be seeing you around Facebook anymore. I\u2019m not breaking up with you but with Facebook. I want to hear from you again.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t miss Facebook\u2019s stream of information that flows relentlessly, carrying important items off the page to be replaced, at time, by trivialities. Everything is equal and transitory in Facebook\u2019s stream. But, in truth, some of what we say is more important than other things. At this point, I forget even the important things that flow away from me. The Web may be rewiring my brain, but I think Facebook is turning it to mush.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t be the first or last to complain about the time Facebook absorbs. If that time were all spent communicating, it might be worthwhile. I\u2019ve enjoyed reading my Facebook friends\u2019 experiences and their real feelings, and appreciated their comments and \u2018likes.\u2019 Not so much the polls, games, fads, and other hoops too many of us jump through. Above all, I spend too much time fighting Facebook\u2019s gawd-awful functions. I won\u2019t list my complaints here<\/a>; I noted many of them as they arose. Remember, I\u2019ve spent my life dealing with computers and software: I\u2019m not easily defeated in this area, and yet, Facebook, you did it. This party I love takes place in an environment I can\u2019t bear any longer. I\u2019ll miss the party, but I gotta get out of this place before in makes me sick.<\/p>\n

I do hope you\u2019ll write me now and then. I hope you\u2019ll read my blogs<\/a> (better: subscribe to the individual RSS feeds or All Mark Considered<\/a> \u2013 if you don\u2019t know how, ask me). I especially hope you\u2019ll see my photos<\/a>. I still like sharing. You\u2019re welcome to comment on any of these things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be watching for the successor to Facebook. I long for a communal gathering place, but I want an oasis, not a stock tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I leave Facebook, let me tell you what I\u2019ll miss. I enjoy the daily contact I have with my Facebook friends. I feel a connection to them \u2013 to you \u2013 and their daily activities. At times, I feel I\u2019m at a big party with all my friends, roaming around, listening to different conversations, … Continue reading Why I’m Leaving Facebook<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edgewiseblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}