True, Facebook just turned 5 in February. And it seems, just in the last 6 months, to have increased its users somewhere in the area of 5000%. Or maybe a bunch of the 35+ crowd just joined. All I know is that I've gotten more requests since December than I've had last year.
Even though I've been on for, what, two years (?), I've just experienced the I-have-no-idea-why-my-high-school-girlfriend-who-dumped-me-would-now-want-to-connect-with-me syndrome. Which maybe many of you have already been through. Which, admittedly, is very disconcerting. I'm wondering what I'm going to do when the guy who tortured me in gym pokes me (which will be a lot better than hitting me in the head with a flattened basketball).
And though people like our own Jenn Tran are such SuperUsers that they can give you advice on anti-Facebook apps, I'm guessing the newer users will probably just drop out completely.
Just as Steve Tuttle from Newsweek did in his really funny post You Can't Friend Me, I Quit!
My favorite part?
"When I think about all the hours I wasted this past year on Facebook, and imagine the good I could have done instead, it depresses me...I could have been raising money for Darfur relief, helping out at the local animal shelter or delivering food to the homeless. It depresses me even more to know that I would never have done any of those things, even with all those extra hours."
See, it's funny because it's true.
"When I think about all the hours I wasted this past year on Facebook, and imagine the good I could have done instead, it depresses me...I could have been raising money for Darfur relief, helping out at the local animal shelter or delivering food to the homeless. It depresses me even more to know that I would never have done any of those things, even with all those extra hours."
See, it's funny because it's true.
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