So I turned 21 about a week ago, which was actually really fun! I got to celebrate with a bunch of my friends, and a week later took a road trip up to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Obviously, Sin City was amazing. I went to a couple of really nice clubs (and one pretty strange one), tried my luck at slot machines (at which I won about $9...thank you R2-D2), and just enjoyed my time there.
Since I was with friends, there were lots of pictures taken. And somehow, pictures always seem to end up on Facebook. I've been in quite a predicament with Facebook, and just the global social networking trends in general, but over the past 30 hours I've decided that I've had enough. What started as a couple of questionable pictures being posted by a friend turned into an angry phone call from home, and another angry phone call from home, and an extremely angry/agitated/WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE phone call from home.
There's no easy way to answer such unexpected phone calls, especially when the last one gets to you as you're eating lunch with a good friend at the Campus Center smack in the middle of the day. I called my friend, asked her to delete some of the pictures. That didn't make things much better, so I then proceeded to begin untagging myself from other pictures. Still, no positive results. After sitting through my stats and operations research classes for 3 hours, I made up my mind.
At 5:43pm PST on Monday, November 22, 2010, I deactivated my Facebook account.
When I clicked "Deactivate", I thought I might be going crazy. But I like it so far. Its not like I'm trying to excommunicate myself from the outside world (obviously I am updating this silly blog that no one ever reads), but I think this will be good for me. I can just feel it.
And now, I present to you...
MY MONTH WITHOUT FACEBOOK
Hypothesis: Life will not suck!
Shocking, huh?? Since I have so much free time, I'll be hopefully updating my blog more often. Hopefully, life without Facebook will result in me doing better things with my idle time. Maybe I'll watch more movies, make an effort to hang out with friends more, go for more runs (although I've been going 3 times a week as is), read ahead for the next four weeks instead of my normal two weeks, beat my calculator games, find more addicting games online...the world is my oyster!
So to all my non-existent readers, stay tuned! I am looking forward to my little social (or would this be considered anti-social?) experiment. And who knows...maybe I'll stay off the white and blue for good!
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Facebook, has always been a place where lack of privacy shows no bounds.
ReplyDeleteI always make sure things remain private as possible, don't add family members, and don't upload or post anything that may cause some serious repercussions.
I hope things go well with you without Facebook, you'll be fine. If you survive this, then you'll know your life isn't run by facebook -- and that's a good thing!
-Sean
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