Breaking up with Facebook is easy to do....

I disabled my facebook account for the second time on February 2, 2012. I had done it once before during the summer of 2011 for a couple of months. Facebook and I have been an item since late 2006. Back then, it was a "college" kids social network. I had a college email account, so I got a facebook. Fast Forward to 2012, the network has become a platform for "hey everyone, look at me! Look at how cool, beautiful, blessed, religious, politically educated, rich, deep, funny, talented, sad, depressed, ignorant, self absorbed...(and so many more things) I am!" It has sucked you in to participate in this superficial world where everyone only shows the best side of themselves and even then, that best side is usually not real at all. It has created the "facebook envy"a phenomena which suggests facebook users feel depressed after browsing through facebook and looking at their "friends'" pages. It has been the platform of gossip, where a new relationship, a break-up,a marriage, a divorce, a coming out or a simple "it's complicated" gets 20 likes in one hour or that "dislike" comment since there is no dislike button. It has been littered with thousands of "duck face" pictures where women (and some men) take self portraits of themselves blowing a kiss at the camera....those are my fave! NOT!

With all that said, it was very easy for me to break up with facebook. It has been a liberating experience this time around. The first time around, it was more so to get me focused on some things that needed my attention. It really worked! A lot of things happened during those 2 months of my facebook separation that allowed for me to center myself again. This time around, I broke up with facebook to center myself again and keep myself centered without the noise of the world and the distractions of the duck faces or who is on what vacation. Post break-up, I have come to realize, facebook and I have run our course and I am moving on to better things ( and no, it is not twitter). Although I am forever grateful to it for reconnecting me with my family overseas, they now have my email and can write or send pics that way....and if I need a good laugh, instead of browsing duck face pics, I just go to youtube and look up random funny videos. Today, I wish facebook and its 500 million + users well. Sending it a "duck face"!