For the last 4-5 years Facebook has slowly been aggravating me. I started using it less and less. I've taken month "breaks". I've told myself I'll use it "just to post memes" or "I'll log into it just to look at others posts". I haven't posted in 4 months. I've been logging in to casually browse, and to check my memories and that's it. If it weren't for my group of friends and our messenger group, I wouldn't have a need to use Facebook, but now I am just going to up and delete it all.
Facebook to me has turned into a competition of who is doing the best in their life right now. People always showing off their things, how they look, how much money their new job is making them, etc. Call me an asshole but I don't care about your 100's of pictures of your children, or the concert you went to last week. I don't give two shits about your political views or what you think about the new " heated topic" of the week.
I don't like how I am so easily found and can be contacted. I have limited my friends to around 180 and that is still too many. I have several people on my friends list that I don't want on there but am too afraid to delete for the chance of seeing them in person and having to explain myself to them. I don't want the pressure of having to accept friend requests from people. I feel like if I just delete it all I will be so relieved and free.
My plan is to contact and message all of my close friends and get their numbers, Steam accounts, Discord, you name it and explain I'm deleting my Facebook. That way I'm only in contact with the people that matter. My fear of not being invited to things because I won't have a Facebook is unjustified. If my friends "forget" to invite me to something, how good of a friend are they really? Why am I holding on to Facebook for the pleasure of others? If it doesn't make me happy, I shouldn't keep it just to "stay in contact" when in reality they can easily reach me by texting. Anyway, thanks for reading this. If any of you have done the same, how has it gone for you?
Submitted July 19, 2018 at 09:33AM by anewstart61618 https://ift.tt/2uz0jYz
