How I did it: Freeing!  If you don't feel ready to delete it completely, you could
always try going without it for a week.  I did that a couple weeks ago, and it was eye opening: I typed facebook into the address bar without even thinking about it, and found myself checking facebook too many times a day. 

I just hit the delete button about a minute ago.  Facebook says my account own't be deleted for 14 days--hopefully that means that the last-minute status I posted with my phone number and email address will still appear on peoples' feeds.  I probably should have sent out a nice message or something to people I actually care about, but you know what?  I'm not going to feel much of a lack for the people I don't see in real life anyway.

My reasons for leaving facebook were the usual ones: it's a time suck, some of the people I was "friends" with were people I wouldn't have said hi to if I walked by them, and time spent on facebook was time that I couldn't put toward acheiving all my goals.

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May 30, 2011, 02:08PM PDT | 0 comments | 11 cheers