Day 3 without Facebook

Yes, what to think? I am wondering what I am missing on Facebook. Would there be any important information that I am not reading at this moment? Will I get isolated from the world? I know more people who do not have Facebook, so there will be no isolation from the world.

The people I know who don’t have Facebook lead great lives and get their information from other sources. Another thought that came up: will I lose friends now? When I had Facebook, I already lost friends, because I am quite a career focused person, I unfortunately, even with Facebook, did not always manage to keep in touch with all my friends. But the question arises, were all these people in my friends list really all friends?

There are people on Facebook who like to collect people and create a big group of followers, but call them friends. There are people on Facebook who connect with several people just to keep checking their profiles to see what they are doing and if they do something that is new or cool, then this person must absolutely also do this. There are people on Facebook who act like their a totally different person than I met in real life and this contrast made me always realize again that Facebook is a virtual, yes fake, created place. Many types of people with all their own purpose of using Facebook.

A professor I spoke last year said: “Facebook is a place where people hide from their true selves. They run away from reality. Become strong in the real world, instead of in your virtual world.”

I am sure quite some people, now I am away from Facebook, will forget me. And I wonder if that is such a bad thing. After all in life there are always transitions from one into the other, where I might lose people, I must gain them somewhere too, right?

“Will someone miss me?” “Will someone think of me?” Would that perhaps be something people are afraid of when thinking of leaving Facebook for a while. Honestly the moment I clicked on deactivate, I did think: “So, will someone miss me now?”

I guess this leaves room for creativity to let people know I am there too! Either as Nupur, or anonymous.