Challenge number two has been a tough one. I have had a few in the pipeline but for whatever reason I have had to drop back and will do these at a later date. The last challenge was to test my fear and I think it did just that... although the write up did leave a lot to be desired, so apologies for that one. So for this fortnight's challenge i am assigning something that i should have done quite some time ago but have been putting it off and putting it off because I am a lazy lazy young lady!
For a bit of a back story, I signed myself up for a facebook account when I was about 20 and it was to keep in contact with close friends and to post pics and do the whole community thing. I had all the security protocols and what not and it all seemed dandy. After a little while though, things started changing. Less people exchanging news, and more people ranking friends and doing "which miley cyrus song am I?" quizzes. Then there were the "Become a fan of 'people against beating small children and women on trams' group" which was so rightly examined by my good friend Dr Q who countered this argument with his own "People in support of not getting shot in the face with a crossbow group". But mostly it just became fairly half hearted on my behalf. Then my friend who I will warmly refer to as Earl Grey informed me that everything I wrote on there was the property of Facebook. Which lets admit it, is a fairly horrifying thought. I started thinking about all the dodgy "I've had too much to drink" photos that I have in existence and it was rather a frightening thought that they would be posted and tagged to my name. So after some serious thought I have decided to bite the bullet and be independant and DELETE MY FACEBOOK! Shock horror for anyone of my generation. I did mention it to a few close friends and the general feeling was "why would you do that?" "How will I know what your doing?" to which I counter, I have a blog, I tweet and I own a phone! If you cant find me, you aint trying! So I challenge not only myself to this, but also my close friends to remember me even if I'm not commenting on facebook.
Now I know that the whole deleting facebook probably seems pretty lame to some people, but for me, facebook is fairly addictive! You can see into other people's life and monitor them! Which is that horrible addictive nosy parker streak I have's dream come true and also a reason to get rid of it (the next step will be to stop gossiping entirely but lets just start with baby steps!) So I am breaking four year trend and will have to learn to live without it. The rules are these:
I have two weeks to:
1. Remove all important info from facebook.
2. Notify close friends of twitter account, email, blog and (god forbid) phone number and NOT make a big deal about it.
3. Finally disable my account.
I am aiming to track my progress with this challenge this time, so hopefully I will update and you can all have a laugh as I rid myself of the facebook addiction....I wonder if there is rehab for this....
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