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I was quite involved into Social Networks a couple of years back, until one day I just thought I have had enough of the entire virtual socializing etc. The primary reason for that was I was having problems with my internet and Facebook, took a billion years to load; so it was on that dreaded day, I pulled the plug and had my profile offline. Goodbye Facebook.
Life was pretty smooth and I never really felt the need to be a par of it again and frankly speaking I wasn’t even bothered to know how successful it has been until I started blogging and reading news on Web services, social networks etc. Facebook had grown by leaps and out of bounds. The reason for its success, what I found and what many others who switched from Orkut were; the privacy it had for the users and then the applications it had to make Facebook-ing experience worthwhile. And it has improved with time, no doubt about it. I somehow never really got into it and waved my hands off.
Last night I was out with friends and that was when I felt I missed something that made me a target of much criticism and boy it was too much for me to bear. What brought forward all that:
Do you have a profile on Facebook Mohkim?
I said I quit using it and that had the entire group crashing on me:
OMG! @$@#! You don’t use Facebook?
Those eyes! I felt I had committed a sin, one that had the worst punishment and it did; for the next couple of hours all I heard were abuses and stuff that made me feel like a ……… (You can guess it; do I need to insult myself?).
The most sincere of friends called me what no one would bear and as I drove back home, I just kept asking myself: ‘Why did you quit it moron?’
I couldn’t justify my reason for quitting it and all that I ended up with was a fact that I had done a bad thing; I mean who calls off himself from using ‘THE BEST ON THE WEB’? The shame, the disgrace I brought upon myself was too much, I couldn’t sleep and had the login page open the whole night, I had to join it, I had to be the part of ‘the largest social network’; to redeem honor, to regain my place in the real world. I bit my nails off before I finally hit in my email and password and had it reactivated. I could breath again, I was alive. I would here take a chance to ask all those who don’t use Facebook or have quit using it to rejoin, before it’s too late and you hear the deafening: OMG! ##!!@ You don’t use Facebook!!!!
Hahaha welcome back to facebook. You should just make like me and keep facebook, even if you don’t actually go onto the website. It’s an invaluable tool for keeping up todate on people, but more importantly it’s an easy way for people to contact you.
You can still HAVE facebook, and not waste time on it
Yes! I guess i must revert to it otherwise the world wont let me live. The HORRROOORRRR!
You are right at not wasting time on it, for its quite an addiction to be precise, one that yields no result.