Deleting my Facebook Profile seems to have contributed to a change in the overwhelmingly strong tide of needing to virtually, as opposed to realistically, networking.
As you, the readers will know after a longwinded (and hopefully insightful) post on ridding myself of one form of networking, I thought it best to update you on how this whole approach has twisted and turned.
Have I caved to the craving?
How did I go cold turkey?
For starters, I did not cave and am recovering back well instead of splintering between web 2.0 and home.
The best thing about banishing the virtual Daily Red on Facebook is now there is no longer a constant thought process in my mind of what would and would not be the wittiest or quirkiest status.
It does feel better to not have Facebook, it feels as if a source of tension has been eliminated, and the reminder of myself when I was seemingly inauthentic is no longer an invisible force tugging me to waste time thinking (and cringing).
While I have read on other sites that quitting Facebook led them to crave it more, as if the urge to know all became even stronger (in an “absence makes the heart grow fonder” sort of way) I failed to experience that.
Now, I am not asking for those emotions, I take this lack of crave as a positive as opposed to something negative; I gave up when I was ahead, at the right time and had no doubts in myself.
Deleting Facebook was not a negative, and when I did get the pangs of not being able to contact some people, I pondered, did I really need them? Like clothing, do we need to wear everything that is in out wardrobe?
Facebook is one pair of shoes that surely does not need to be.
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