Farewell facebook

I'm sure all of you, at some point, have wanted to, or already might have, deactivated your accounts for a while. It has been some five months and counting for me, and regret doesn't feature in my list currently. The push for getting out of facebook can be sourced to a couple of reasons:

1. A question of nosy eyes- Face it people, facebook is but a question of nosy eyes. We might crib about others prying over every detail of our lives in blue and white but we are culprits nonetheless. It might start unintentionally. You stick to your plan of staying in touch with the needful, so you go to your wall, your inbox but one thing leads to the other and pretty soon you have seven to eight tabs staring back at you.
2. The happy faces- Continuing with the previous point, we then start comparing our life situation with those that are a click away and then feel miserable in the process, knowing fully well that people tend to put only a happy face on the site. We project ourselves as having the time of our lives which might not be the ground reality. But we do. I have done it so many times myself.
3. Unwanted company- How many times have you snubbed people you wouldn't care to be in touch with? While in reality chances of ignoring and getting away are mighty high, it isn't the same with facebook because all your activities are there for all to see. One can't be impolite to seniors or juniors, so what if you hardly exchanged five words in some ten years.
4. The repeat offender- I accept it was super rude on my part to do so but I have actually unfriended a person a record seven times. She never quite understood I wasn't just going to be one among the thousand in her list. We never exchanged a single 'hi' or 'how are you', and thankfully I heard similar stories from others as well so I wasn't all too guilty about it in the end.
5. Playing detective- I never profited from this game. Though hesitatingly, I have stumbled upon unwanted information many a times which have raised doubts, questions and stress levels. The best option was to remain oblivious once and for all. 
6. Unproductive hours- And finally to cut to the main point, we spend so much time browsing through trash. Most times we don't even care two hoots about whose profiles we are going through, not to forget the games, yet for the sake of being on the site we do it. Facebook feels like a sickness if you cannot get your priorities sorted out. It really does.

Well, now that my reasons (atleast the ones I can think of right now) have been stated, I wish to confide that everytime I walk across the library hall towards the loo, I spot a minimum five computers browsing through facebook and I just have this big wide grin on my face. I admit I am tempted to get back in order to straighten out a few creases in my head but I know better now. It has been an absolute privilege being a part of the world of social networking but somewhere I knew it had to stop. This is where the road ends. Until the time I start a new and worthwhile chapter in my life, it is so long facebook at this end.