On Facebook and Relationships

Mr. Brooks:

I quit Facebook back in mid-May of 2010, it has not been a year yet, but it has been a significant amount of time. What I can tell you is that not a single relationship/friendship that I have has suffered because of it. There has yet to be a single instance where I regretted quitting Facebook.

I think that if a friendship suffers due to a lack of Facebook, it probably wasn’t a great relationship to begin with. Social media makes the art of relationships appear easy, while in actuality, it creates a false feeling of closeness that wouldn’t be there otherwise.

I’ve turned my account on and off several times, and late last week, started the process to delete it entirely¹ after my uneasiness with the service grew too large to ignore.