- Facebook became the greatest mean of communication in few years. It become increasingly important and entered gradually then suddenly in our daily life.
Year after year it becomes more intrusive, we are not only sharing basic information on facebook anywhere but we share with our “friends” and also the entire world almost hour by hour our position, our activities, what we eat, how we sleep, what we like, what we look like, etc.
Here I am not trying to convince you to quit Facebook, or to argue that the intention of Facebook are bad or something, I will just analyze the process that you have to go through to quit Facebook if you ever wanted to do so.
First, you will be tempted to seek help in the Facebook help page in order to delete definitely your account-the Facebook help page notifies you that there is no way back if you delete permanently your account – after reading all the warning notice and concluding that you will probably die few minutes after deleting your account you decide to click where you have to in order to commit your social suicide BUT then you are redirected on another page which says that you simply cannot do it, that there is an error or that the page you are looking for has been deleted.
So here you are, frustrated but you still are convinced that your Facebook account has to be deleted (for several reasons). So you opt for the other way of deleting your account which is simply deactivating it -but then you are well aware that all your info are still somewhere floating between the life and the death as ghosts. Moreover, the temptation to reenter your email address and recover your good old account as it was left is too big and nearly impossible to fight (I know I am weak).
Finally you will opt for the hard method, deleting everything, yes I said EVERYTHING.
Your photos, your posts, your comments, your friends, your email address, change all the data you cannot delete and unlike everything you liked (pages, comments, photos, etc).
As you can imagine the task is not easy, and Facebook does not render it more easy at all, no option is available for mass deleting, you have to do it one by one by one by one… ZZZZZ …and confirm each time. Imagine 4 years of jokes, abusive “likes”, 4 years of excessive “Lol’s”, of thoughtless “haha” and little black hearts have to be removed manually. Depending on how fast you click and how fast your internet connection is and counting minimum 2 clicks per action (as you have to confirm each time) it can take from several hours to several days. It also depends on how prolix you have been when on Facebook and how generous in “likes” you are.
Not speaking of the physical difficulty and of the length of the task. I would like to approach the theme of the psychological difficulty. You have to see again all your friend’s little messages, the one’s that made you laugh so hard, the one’s that you were so pleased to read, the one’s that made you cry a little, the one’s that touched you so deep, and delete them all. You also have to look at all the pictures of you and your friends and just delete them as you delete your friends; you just look at their profile pictures like you were never going to see them again.
You feel like you just killed all your friends and the mix of guilt and sadness is unbearable… for two minutes then you realize that you really did it, and you feel so relieved and free that you just want the whole world to know about it.
And that was really the only purpose of this article… I did it Hooray!!!
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