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buh bye facebook

I deleted my Facebook account about a month ago, which means that about now all my data has gone away.  That's the theory. Paula at Light Motifs did this and wrote about it, which inspired me at the time but I was only able to build up the nerve lately to perform my own FBectomy. What finally pushed me over the edge was when I attempted to remove my deceased wife's account from Facebook.  I couldn't remember her password, so I was instructed to produce a death certificate before they would remove the account.

This is, of course, the height of arrogance on their part and a tremendous invasion of privacy.  Perhaps it's all our faults, but Facebook has gotten the impression that it is important. We may assign importance to it, or not, but the reality is that it's just a web page, and I refuse to give them the information on a death certificate.

Maybe I overreacted. At any rate, I pulled my own account and I suppose my wife's account will just sit there. It's not all bad. Some of her Facebook friends remember her by posting comments occasionally, and birthday messages, which is harmless and probably even beneficial.

Maybe there is such a thing as Internet Feng Shui. I do not miss Facebook at all, and the Internet seems just a little brighter and airier now. I think that every now and then it's good to consider what kind of garbage and negative crap we are letting into our brains, and try to minimize it. I'm pretty sure humans were not designed to deal with this much outrage and angst and engineered stupidity.

It's all been said before.