Reasons to leave facebook

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• Facebook eats your brain. Recent research indicates that social networking sites may inhibit concentration span and have a negative influence on our ability to feel empathy.

• Addiction and timewasting

• Anyone can start a group mocking or belittling you or a member of your family. As long as the posts aren't blatantly obscene or threatening, no number of "report this group" attempts will make a difference. Ever been a teacher? How many of your ex students are on Facebook? Ever had to sack someone? Ever had an ex? Would you like embarrassing and/or false anecdotes passed around the web on a Facebook group that carried your name for anyone searching for you on Google? Ever pissed anyone off, ever? Facebook take no responsibility for groups that in the real world would be defamatory. It could easily happen to you.

• Drama. Your friend who said they were sick was really out partying last night. You saw the Facebook photos! Some serious drama is about to go down!

• Unless you manually change your privacy settings anyone searching for you on Google sees your photo and a sample of your friends, as well as groups you belong to. Easy to reconstruct your networks and habits from even this basic info.

• Hurt feelings. You break up with your significant other. He or she deletes the album titled “Me and My Baby” with every photo he or she has of you. It is physical proof of any relationship – romantic or platonic – that goes south.

• Facebook is uber consumerist. Why would I want to be a Fan of Starbucks? Isnt it enough I spend my money there?

• Open network. You can see anyone’s (well, non-private) Facebook. If you can look at someone’s Facebook and judge how lame they are, people can do the same to you.

• It's made people lazy. If you're not on Facebook they don't email you so often. They post photos you can't see on their profiles. Most FB users only communicate with friends through Facebook. Why let a third party filter or change the way you interact with your friends?

• Etiquette. There are some intense rules of Facebook. It is offensive if you un-friend someone or delete photos of you two. Considering that everyone else is on Facebook a million times a day, if you don’t respond to someone’s post right away, you may come off badly without even meaning to.

• False friendships. “Hey man, let’s hang out later” – B. “Yeah, I’ll call you!”-A. These meaningless wall posts will never come to fruition; it’s just a way of sadly attempting to keep in touch with former acquaintances.

• It seems that everyone in your former High School has joined and became friends, Only to relive High School all over again. Twenty years later. The snubbing still continues.....

• The end of privacy. What type of world do we live in where every action we do is documented for everyone to see? I don’t want people to see whom I have friended, who has posted on my wall, or the worst of the worst: whom I have ended a relationship with.

• Trouble with authorities. Take those same pictures of you in the toga. Now not only have your friends seen them, so has your fraternity/sorority, future employer, and maybe, somehow, your parents. That’s just a nightmare waiting to happen.

• Embarrassing moments. OK. It’s Friday night, you’ve had a few drinks, and the next thing you know, you are waking up Saturday morning to photos of yourself in a toga, passed out on your friend’s couch with drool dripping from the corner of your mouth. You can un-tag those puppies, but everyone has already seen them.

• The fact it has become suddenly compulsory for the entire world. Peer pressure from cyber sheep.

• Facebook is uber conformist

• Facebook is narcissistic. So you ate a ham sandwich? Do I need to know this?

• Data ownership issues.

• The presence of (so far) British intelligence groups monitoring FB activity.

• It makes users sound stupid. "Edith is eating the wonderful pot roast her gorgeous husband made for her". "Jon just finished pumping iron.

• The world is going to hell in a handbasket and whole generations spend their time sending each other virtual cocktails.