No more Facebook

OK - So I've done it...I've deactivated my Facebook account.  There are a lot people asking me why.  Being the up front and honest person I am, I'll tell you.  There are several reasons.

1. We canceled our cable several years ago.  It has been a tremendous blessing.  The kids are exposed to so much less, we don't choose TV over playing outside, and I have been blessed to be Kardashian free!  On the flip side, I still had Facebook.  It seemed hypocritical to be a part of a network that could consume just as much, if not more of my time than the TV.  After ignoring the voice in my head for awhile, I finally decided it was enough.
2. I'm too nosy.  I had over 500 "friends."  Seriously, I know there are some people in the thousands, but there is no way I know 500 people well enough to read their business everyday or look at their private pictures.  I was bombarded with all this information about births and deaths, fights and friends...it was too much.  I know I could delete friends, but then I feel bad and the guilt takes away the fun.  I can't just ignore the posts because I'm so nosy so the only way to avoid it was to leave.
3. I'm too competitive.  Ok, if we are all honest, there's more than just me out there.  I worked my tail off through countless injuries to run a half marathon and the day after I accomplished it, someone posted they ran a full...really?!  Then there are all the my kid can do....and my family gets to go to....and look how awesome my abs are....and I have such awesome friends...It's not that I don't feel great about my family, friends, kids, etc.  It's just that when you are faced daily with the lives of other people, and you are really competitive in nature, it starts to make you compare.  I am BLESSED.  I don't need to compare myself with others, and I need to be free of anything that makes me feel less than what I am blessed to be.
4.  People disappoint me.  During the past football season and now during this political season, people have been just downright hateful and disrespectful.  I do not understand why people can't love each other and be kind.  It really just baffles me.  I hate seeing people I used to respect act like fools and I hate seeing that people can't listen to each other.  It scares me for my "friends" and it scares me for the future.  So, I will just deactivate and stick my head in the sand (again, I'm too nosy to just ignore the posts).

So, hopefully you can see through all of this that it was necessary for me.  It wasn't a security issue or a hate for Timeline or anything else.  Just personal...no judgement towards all those that do use it, just awareness that it's not for me.