Goodbye Facebook

So, it’s a month to the day since I posted my most recent tirade against Facebook, but this time I’m writing to report that I finally kicked Mark Zuckerberg’s travesty to the curb.  Granted, there wasn’t much left there to delete…

And that was the aspect that made it more difficult, actually.

I didn’t have much in my private profile besides my email address, and according to a report I ran using Reclaim Privacy’s Facebook checker tool, my information (or lack of it) was well protected with my configured settings.  So why not just leave it as-is?  With little to lose, Facebook could still have been an outpost where people could check in to find my email address and get in touch with me.  I quit anyway, for the following reasons:

1. I’m sick of Facebook’s degrading privacy protection.
2. Whatever Facebook once was, it’s no longer a social gathering place for me, as it is a place of parallel play.  Games, petitions, and interest groups that you never actually post on have eclipsed the real social connection that was once defined the  site.
3. I blog.  I tweet. I’m not that hard to find, if people are actually so-inclined to connect with me.

I’ll be watching my inbox, and the comment queue.  ^_^