Ya they only recently allowed for people to actually delete their accounts, but it's no surprise that they've made this quite difficult to figure out; i eventually ended up googling how to.
I still dont know the actual steps to reach this page, but it was linked in a 'how to';
https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
Thank you! You're awesome! I'd never have known this was possible had I not seen this thread. Facebook is officially deleted. Well, in 14 days anyway.
I was torn on this issue about 15 minutes ago and then I realized how good of a decision it would be. I just deleted it.
Congratulations.
Also, I can't stand the way your 'likes' are now linked. Thinking about deleted my info from the page all together.
There is so much shit I don't like about it. It's endless. The "drama" aspect of it is really low on the list, and not very different from drama with other human beings in general, which I dislike much, and is also the reason I allow very few people to be in my life. I love certain people but I'm very picky because I've been so deeply hurt by other human beings so many times. I've learned. Facebook is just another opportunity for interaction with people who don't care very deeply about me, and setting myself up for those left out, high-school-like feelings that I have no interest in experiencing anymore.
Just an example of the "drama" that I mean though.. something that hurt me a lot on there was that I'd see family members being really, really sweet and supportive of each other. Always commenting on each other, etc. But then I'd comment on them and they'd ignore me completely even when I was really sweet. And they'd never say anything on my status, even when they were important or exciting news about my life. I'd send them messages that would go unanswered, and I'd know they'd logged on because they'd update their status.
I wasn't one to sit there crying when one of my status didn't get a reply. But when this happened consistently with these same family members over a year or more, it was really just nothing but negativity in my mind. I don't need to be reminded that I'm not close with my extended family, and I had to wonder WHY some of them even added me in the first place when they so clearly have zero interest in whether I'm alive or dead.
Having a facebook just seemed like a reminder of all things bad and made it hard to let go for me. Sure I guess I COULD have deleted those family members but that would have hurt too. I tried so hard to reconnect with some of them and was ignored... I just ended up wanting nothing to do with it.
All that stuff on top of creepy privacy issues and the stuff mentioned in that video that was posted here... it's just so...ew. It's also so vain.
I was vain while I was using it. PIcs, status, talking about myself all the time. It's an easy and delicious habit to fall into. That's why facebook works so well. People are fucking vain. And that is
not a quality I want to cultivate in myself. It's one thing to share a pic or two with friends (I do that here occasionally or through email) but it's quite another to feel the need to broadcast every detail about yourself to the world as if you are a celebrity getting interviewed. Not saying everyone does that but so many people do.
I am not someone who is constantly hungry for attention. HEY GUISE CHECK OUT MY PICTURES OMG THIS WAS SUCH AN AWESOME NIGHT!!
Exactly. Just like that.
it's a known fact about BL - if you haven't hooked up with another BLer than you are not officially a BLers
I live with one so I guess that makes me a mega-bluelighter. Sweeeeet! :D
Thanks again Malakaix
