Facebook

Last night (or the night before, I don't remember) I deleted my Facebook account. I wonder if anybody's noticed, though intuition tells me probably not. I guess it is kind of strange for me to choose to delete Facebook now, of all times. I mean, when test week came around I didn't even delete Facebook. Now, when I technically have all the time in the world to procrastinate, I decide to delete it.

So here's how the story goes. I'm one of those people who grew out of that stage of "ADD AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE". Yeah, I was like that too, once upon a time. I used to play FarmVille and Mafia Wars back then, too. Oh the good ol' days of high school. That's okay, no regrets, the games were fun while they lasted. Then at one point I got tired of farming, and realized, "hey, this is more fucking tedious than my household chores, having to plant and harvest this massive virtual farm at a set time." It's like, if I were that rigorous about tidying my room or doing my homework, maybe my parents would stop yapping at me.

The logical follow up to that was to quit the games. And I did. I'm one of those people who have a really hard time getting into something. My obsession is generally short-lived, and even in my most obsessed period, if tests come around and I have to stop, I will. It's not really self-control, it's more like admitting "I don't really care". You know how I play MMORPGs, right? Well, I'd spend eons trying to get a legendary item or whatever, but after I obtain it I'm just all like, "MEH".

Back to my cool story. After quitting Facebook games, I realised I had all these "friends" who weren't really my friends- and I "unfriended" them all (oh if only real life were that simple). Then I looked at people I actually knew, who weren't really my friends but I added them because hey, Facebook. I deleted those people too. It only became awkward after they added me back, thinking that I had removed them from my friends list by accident. Well what do you say to that- "sorry but I don't actually know you that well and I don't even WANT to know you that well". So I re-add them.

After that incident, I have these phases where I think to myself: "I have too many friends on Facebook, let's delete some". Last night I went through that phase again--- then saw all these people I kind of wanted to delete, but was too chicken to, because we went to the same school and saw each other and blah. We just never talked. Then there was some guy who I talked to ONCE but we had a really good time, except we never spoke again afterwards and I don't really want to initiate the conversation because I hate doing that. I can basically sort my "friends" into groups--- people I keep as friends, people I'm removing as soon as I graduate, people I'm removing as soon as I leave the city, etc, etc. If I stopped myself from posting profane things on Facebook I reckon it'd be fine, except there are always thing you'd rather share with your actual friends as opposed to acquaintances. Then everything became too complicated (despite my 80 friends) so I was like "fuck this" and deleted my Facebook account all together. It'll take 14 days for the deletion to occur, but yeah I figure I'd rather clear my profile as opposed to delete everyone and have many awkward conversations of "why did you unfriend me on Facebook?"

I never knew unfriending someone on Facebook was such a social crime. I guess it's because people post their relationship status on there and whatever, then they have these Facebook break ups and the world is like "OH NOES".

Yeeah idk. I might re-create a Facebook next year, if I meet enough people I like. The thing is, I already have everyone I want to talk to on Skype, so the contact thing is no big drama. Otherwise I have a bunch of phone numbers. Texting isn't yet out of fashion, right?