(As posted on my Facebook page):
I love you, really, I do, every one of you. But I'm going to have to say goodbye for the third and final time. I don't need you to Write On My Wall. I don't have a wall. I have an email address and a telephone number. My email address is nick(at)montrealfood.com.
If you cared even slightly you'd already know my phone number. There is nothing that Facebook provides me that I couldn't find though email or your kind telephone call. Too much information. And as of Monday, December 7, I'm declaring my own Facebook Pearl Harbor.
Goodbye, my Facebook friends. Goodbye. May all your Facebooking be truly happy and keep you snug in your beds through all kinds of winter storms. Goodbye, dear Facebook, goodbye. I will now Share this poignant farewell with All Of You by clicking on the bluish-grey "Share" button below this pixellated window.
How profound this Sharing moment this is, this final Facebook moment. Share. Share. Share! Share all your dreams through the bluish-grey button; it exists only to serve your scantest whim.
If indeed I cease to exist on Facebook, remember me as I was. Pass on my Sharingness, pass on my love to all your Friends. Think of me as a mere snapshot in your dear lives, to be treasured for everything that we Shared. Do not forget me. -- Nick
Nick,
ReplyDeleteOh, I am sooooo with you on the matter of Facebook. Twitter too. Have both and never use them. Like yourself, I have an e-mail addy and two telephone numbers, land and cell. Use any or all of them. Oh and, lest we forget, whatever happened to snail mail, eh?
Have a great day.
Karen
Karen,
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, MUCH AS I TRIED, I just could not get into it. And I was the classic late-adopter (then enthusiastic fan of) things like the Web and cell phones.
But some things in life are superfluous -- manufactured to fill a need that doesn't actually exist.
And Facebook is a classic example of something that doesn't need to exist.
I don't admit I'm "an old fogey". I'm not. Just, Facebook is a useless piece of trivial nonsense that serves to kill time when you have nothing else to do.
Kind of like PacMan.