Chicken

Okay, first of all, let me just get honest here.  The main reason why I'm giving up Facebook is not because I'm tired of all the junk I see every day (although I have to be honest...I won't miss the latest e-card craze).  The real reason that I had to give up Facebook was because, apparently, I have no self control. I have a mini computer in my pocket all day, and instead of using my free moments to, say, clean out a messy drawer or read my Bible, I have fallen back on the crutch of the mind numbing 2 minute scan through the old FB.  I gave up FB for 13 weeks this winter/spring, and I thought I'd be much more controlled when I returned, but alas, within a few weeks I was back into my old habits like an addict.  I'm not sure why FB had such a grip on me.  I'm not normally one to get hooked on things.  I don't even drink coffee anymore and gave it up easily last year.  But the pull to check FB first thing in the morning was making me feel like a total loser, and yet even when I felt that way, I still did it!  This is not good.  So the only way for me to loose this grip on my mind was to go cold turkey.

So I did it.  I shut it down.

Well, sort of.  See, turns out that you can "deactivate" your FB so that you can't be searched and friended, no further activity on your account, but your timeline and pictures are not deleted from FB records so that when you want to rejoin FB, your friends are still there and you don't have to start over.

Ohhhhh, they are so smart.  So smart indeed.

So I deactivated.  Because I thought, you know, what if for some reason I HAVE to rejoin FB years down the line.  I mean, like, it's absolutely necessary.  Then I have to go through the long laborious process of finding you all again, friending, etc, etc, etc.  What a hassle!  Really, I'm just trying to save you the trouble of accepting my friend request again.  But I did delete the app from my phone.  And if any of you ever see my name pop up on the side of your page as "currently online," you have my permission to drive over and give me a good, hard scolding.    But not too hard... I might unfriend you.