Events in my life have taken many twists and turns in the last couple of years so that by the end of July I thought, I need to unplug from the greatest friend debauchery the world has ever known. Even if it is only for a wee while. So I took a month off of facebook this past August.
I can report that after one month exactly 4 of my 661 facebook 'friends' contacted me via phone/email. I have 3 immediate family members and luckily we maintain regular contact. So, as a mathematician I have to evaluate this using the cold hard facts. 4/661 people are really my friends. I interacted with approximately 0.6% of the total publicly declared number of connections that facebook deems friends.
I don't know about you, but that's about the same as LBF. In my adult life I have found that in a given month I socialize with about 5-10 people and since I actually do know people that don't have a facebook account that number is about correct for my facebook free month.
Facebook clutters my life and I'm not sure I can return to it again. I've poked around a bit in the few weeks since I 'returned' (pun intended) and I feel like a lost sheep. The spell is broken. The charm has ceased.
I am now officially living LAF: Life After Facebook. This 'new' life will include this blog. Or another blog (I have a habit of creating new blogs....maybe I will commit to one eventually).
