How I did it: As I went through the process of building my page, inviting friends (and "friends"), accepting invites, responding to stuff posted on my "Wall," made polite posts on other peoples' Walls, and generally checked out the website . . . I realized pretty quickly how easily the site could become an incredible time sink. 

Facebook seemed built to keep you busy playing games, "liking" things, posting messages without much actual content, and exchanging light banter with people you both like and don't even really like but should talk to because of some tenuous connection you have (very distant relative, someone you went to High School with but didn't even know that well).

I had only been on the site perhaps 2 weeks and I felt inundated with Inbox notifications.  Yeah, you can do your best to reduce those by turning off as many as you can, but all that stuff will still be there when you log on.  I considered that maybe once the initial rush of friend invites died down, it wouldn't be so bad, but there was still all the Wall postings, etc., etc.  . . .

During my initial touring of Facebook, I saw that some of my "friends" seemed to spend hours writing on peoples' Walls, sending all sorts of invitations and notifications, playing games, trying to get people to adopt a cartoon llama (lol!), etc.

What really concerned me was that I would become one of those people.  The older I get, the more I Know Me.  I have an addictive personality.  I am slow to start things, but once I get fully involved, it is quite difficult for me to stop. 

So, I quit before that had a chance to happen. 

Resources: My negative memories of the B.S. I went through on MySpace.

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Aug 19, 09:28AM PDT | 1 comment | 15 cheers