Seitz. Writes. » facebook http://www.seitzwrites.com Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:55:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 I’m sick of the internet… http://www.seitzwrites.com/2009/02/26/im-sick-of-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-sick-of-the-internet http://www.seitzwrites.com/2009/02/26/im-sick-of-the-internet/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:27 +0000 Seitz http://www.seitzwrites.com/?p=330 I closed my facebook account the other night. It was something that I’d been thinking about doing for a while, but I finally decided that it was time. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the controversial change to the terms of service, or with all the weird causes and groups I was invited to join (although the last thing I did was change my status so that it threatened to de-friend anyone who sent me unsolicited invitations to stupid things, in so many words). It had nothing to do with the 25 random things, or movie quotes, or antyhing like that. Most importantly, it had nothing to do with my Mom friending me.

Basically, I quit facebook because It wasn’t worth having anymore. Back when I was actually in school, it was nice to have a way to get in touch with people, or to contact classmates or floormates or what have you. But now that I’ve graduated and my account was four years old, it was so loaded down with random people (freshman year I decided that it’d be fun to friend everyone named Seitz I could find) that I wasn’t getting information from people that I was actually interested in hearing about/from.

I didn’t have the 400 or so friends that facebook said I did, and after closing it down, I still have the same number of real friends. If any of those people want to get in touch with me, they can email me or call me. I don’t need to go to a website to hear from someone that I know in real life, and I’d rather have a conversation with someone than read a profile.

In case you’re curious, I will also not be starting Twitter any time soon. If you read just about anything on this site, you can tell that I can’t form coherent thoughts in the span of a mere 140 characters. Running a Twitter feed is just a half-assed way to make yourself sound clever. Again, I’d rather just have a conversation with someone.

There is a certain irony, I’m aware, in the fact that I’m bitching about these websites on my personal blog. I really don’t have an answer to that, except that I own this domain name, built the site myself and I won’t sell my own information to marketers in exchange for access. If you’re going to broadcast your thoughts and opinions, you might as well put some effort into it and make it at least somewhat original.

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