Should you delete your facebook account and use the refund to go and get a real life

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I've never really seen the point of the social media thing. I have much more fun building big informational websites and wiki websites than I do goofing around with blogging, or "social media". I feel like a wiki gives me a lot of flexibility, but the social media thing seems so boring and straight jacketing. But John's email really summed it up nicely, and I quote him...

John Alanis to me
show details May 14 (2 days ago)

Hey guys,

Social media reminds me a lot of high school. A lot. It's all about image, and who has the most friends, and who's the most popular, and who can be the coolest--and of course, results have
little to do with anything.

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Recently, there was a yet another big to do over Facebook and their latest privacy settings. The "in crowd" is hemming and hawing and bleating about it, all scrambling to see who can squawk the loudest so they can be the coolest.

God forbid you use any common sense and not post something on Facebook you don't want the world to see. All one of your "friends" has to do is take a screen shot of your account, and either email it to the world, or post it on a blog somewhere. There's no such thing as privacy in social media.

Or they argue with each other about "snooping" in the information that they have all made publicly available..

So, what's the en vogue response for all the wanna be cool people on Facebook? They are, get this, considering deleting their accounts. Some have even done so. How pensive. How totally cool and alternative.

Take that Facebook. I'm deleting a free account I pay no money for, and I'm going... where?

Well, nowhere, because there are no other platforms for the popular crowd to exhibit their popularity. Myspace is "so over" and Twitter is limited at best.

So, they will come back to Facebook, after a suitable amount of protest time, announcing their re-arrival and recreation of a free account to anyone who cares to listen.

And then in a few months, as they get to 200 or 300 friends, they are wondering who are all these people! Question as seen on Facebook! Fb..i got to many friends on here rite now that i didnt kno last year... Who tha fuck R yall ?? I cant figure out wat am i doin?? Wat am im doin..oh oh yea IM DOIN Me.. If one had their old account handy, one would see that the individuals spelling has not improved not a whit.

This is, of course, nothing but sound and fury with no results or point attached to it. Nothing wrong with using Facebook or other social media to keep in touch, but it is what it is--just another communication mechanism, and a good way to get in trouble and waste time.

But you feel good that you are also wasting a lot of other people's time saying "Hey look at me". Ultimate tool for class clowns. Job one for class clowns: "Attracting Attention To Myself!" Dig Me! - George Carlin

People who want to make excuses for no results in their life glom onto things like popularity, and image, always looking for things to be offended about. It's a great way to distract from the fact they're getting nowhere in life instead of taking action to get somewhere.

Who can wear the biggest piece of costume jewelry giving their old jailcell number, or the first initial of their name.... Or send out surveys that include a slide show of their pictures, and the all important survey question for you to answer: "Do you like me?"

If you want to be a success in life, study these people--and do the exact opposite of what they do. Delete your Facebook account if you wish - but only because it's a giant waste of time and you happen to have a real life to live.

On with the fun...

-John Alanis
"The King of Let 'em Come to You"