After the initial joy of joining Facebook and playing around with it a little, I find myself entering the website less and less. Applications always seemed annoying to me (some of them are nice, but very few are useful.) I didn’t want to post anything too personal on Facebook because I have this blog and if I’ll want to publish something it would be here. Additionally, the privacy issues are really disturbing – did you know that if a friend installs an application then the application can read your data?
I’ve noticed, though, that my friends have also stopped sharing things on Facebook. One friend even simply disappeared. I have no idea why or what happened. The news feed, where you see all the updates from your friends, now contains very few new items every day, where before it used to fill the entire page. I don’t know why people stopped using Facebook, but the domino effect is apparent – once you realize your friends aren’t logging into Facebook every day, you have no motivation to update your photo albums, activities, etc. Then you gradually stop using Facebook as well.
Anyway, it was nice while it lasted. I still have my (very modest) profile on Facebook and it will probably stay there just so that people can find me. Other than that, I’m pretty much done with Facebook.