edward-byrne: I have DEACTIVATED my Facebook Account. Dant Dant Daaaa! I have recently deactivated my Facebook account (wow, ‘facebook’ is in my spellcheck with a capital ‘F’). This drastic action was inspired by a friend of mine who managed to deactivate his account for 6 months. So i thought learning self control would be a good character builder… it has already been a week and is extremely hard.  Facebook had completely dominated my life without me knowing it. I did not feel I was an avid user of the social site and thought i had a good balance of real friends and my cyber buddies. But you dont know what you had till you lose it! I feel totally disconnected, dont know when my friends birthdays are/ cant join in group meetings and trips with friends (luckily my close mates remind me)/ I can not access my photos or even my On|Off Collective group Page. But im still going strong.  What started out as a personal task has now (Inspired by Paul Caplan) become a research experiment. I am going to record my interent usage, time spent on other social media sites (if they rise or fall without Facebook), my ability to share ideas with people without the dominate social network to help.  If anyone else has any ideas of what else I can try to discover by deactivating Facebook please dont hesitate to ask me a question. I shall be updating my findings r e g u l a r l y . 

edward-byrne:

I have DEACTIVATED my Facebook Account.

Dant Dant Daaaa! I have recently deactivated my Facebook account (wow, ‘facebook’ is in my spellcheck with a capital ‘F’). This drastic action was inspired by a friend of mine who managed to deactivate his account for 6 months. So i thought learning self control would be a good character builder… it has already been a week and is extremely hard. 

Facebook had completely dominated my life without me knowing it. I did not feel I was an avid user of the social site and thought i had a good balance of real friends and my cyber buddies.

But you dont know what you had till you lose it!

I feel totally disconnected, dont know when my friends birthdays are/ cant join in group meetings and trips with friends (luckily my close mates remind me)/ I can not access my photos or even my On|Off Collective group Page. But im still going strong. 

What started out as a personal task has now (Inspired by Paul Caplan) become a research experiment. I am going to record my interent usage, time spent on other social media sites (if they rise or fall without Facebook), my ability to share ideas with people without the dominate social network to help. 

If anyone else has any ideas of what else I can try to discover by deactivating Facebook please dont hesitate to ask me a question. I shall be updating my findings r e g u l a r l y . 

  1. andrewbevan said: DUN DUN DUNNNNN
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  3. niharikaaa said: I did the same last year for about 7 months. the first month is the hardest; I actually loved being without facebook after that. Anyway when you do get back be prepared to feel like the outsider for a few days with all the changes and updates.
  4. pujabanerjee said: whoa!!! really…well thats an interesting step to take..good luck with it!
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