Facebook Plans

They tell me as you get older you have to grow up and make decisions and such.  Well for me the time has come to say goodbye to ye old Facebook.  I know, I know...you can't do that you say, but I believe you actually can permanently delete an account.  Here's why I am jumping ship on a site that claims to be all about social networking.

1. Facebook has become stupid. I can barely get into Facebook without being inundated by ads for companies, organizations, and other products I have ZERO interest in.

2. There is no privacy on Facebook and while I lead a semi-public life I get requests all the time from "friends" I do not know or who I only know in passing.  It is hard for me to consider this a social networking site when it keeps me from...being social.

3. Along these lines, we know that Facebook released a study recently revealing that they were undergoing a new type of data collection.  In the new program we find out they were tracking when people typed content out and then removed it without publishing. Their mission is to understand why users "self-censor" themselves in updates.  Really?  I wonder how many people they caught starting to type a thought, catching a phone call or running to the bathroom only to complete the thought more than ten minutes later.  Either way...tale a hike.

4. I admit it.  I spend way too much time here looking and it distracts me from the work at hand.  The Facetube is just distracting.  It doesn't help me be productive.  It doesn't help me relax and nine times out of ten has more useless information in it than a trivial pursuit game directed at shows running on TVLand.

5. I have no idea what the current terms of service are for Facebook.  What I do know is my wife who believes in breastfeeding can not post a picture doing so because feeding a child is considered pornography to the Facebook goose steppers.

A note on this one...while my wife is pretty modest and I doubt she would ever do a breastfeeding picture, much less put on on Facebook, they are against breast feeding, but had no problem allowing people to post death threats to Mitt Romney in 2012.  They allow pro-terrorist messages, but have a problem when I complain about American Airlines.

Finally, I can not stand getting any more game requests for Bejeweled, Bedazzled, Farmer's Freak Friends, etc.  Really?  Do I need to say any more?

If you really have need of finding me, it will be easy.  I am still on LinkedIn which is a professional networking site without many of the same harassing issues.  If you really still want to know my views on politics, policy, pop culture, sports, or the things most important my church and my family, hop on here and read my blog.  You can still comment, you can still harangue me, you just can't suggest we become farm friends.  You have until August 15, 2014 at which time I have to say goodbye to Facebook.