Are you sure?

Facebook has one less user than 500 million now. (And Twitter... although, I was pretty comatose over there anyways...)


Have you ever tried deactivating your Facebook account? They try to guilt-trip you into not doing it like this:

Mean trick, I say. Seriously. Not cool, Facebook.


It's not forever though, so it's not quite as courageous a task as I might fool myself into thinking. You can actually go back to it whenever you want. I'm not entirely sure if I want to go back or not but let's see how that goes... I've been thinking about it a lot recently... (In whatever little quiet space there is in my brain.) I would keep coming up with excuses though, like it's an easy and nice way to share (show off) my photos... It's an easy way to keep in touch (stalk)... 


But they're excuses at the end of the day and honestly, I don't like the person I become when I am on Facebook. I don't need to know what everybody is doing. I don't need everybody to know what I am doing. I don't need to share my photos. I don't need to have Facebook help me keep in touch with the people that I really care about. 


And I also used to feel spread so thin on Facebook. It's just too much. And I wonder why is it so bad to let some people go? I mean, do I really have to be best-friends with my kindergarten "best-friend" for the rest of my life? Maybe it sounds mean, but sometimes I think maybe we try too hard to keep holding on to things, people, times... Maybe if we let go, what remains will be what is really meaningful. What really matters. And people change, they move on and that's okay because we can move on too. It's definitely hard, because it feels like I somehow care less but not necessarily. I still treasure the time spent with that person but it was not meant to last forever. And that's okay!


I remember stumbling upon a quote on a Tumblr blog the other day... It was something about advice to College students. I wish I could remember what exactly it said, or better yet, find it for you... but anyway the gist of it was, "If the person you love is meant to be yours, then it doesn't matter if he/she goes to the moon for five years... it will work out." Okay, that's a really bad rendition of it and it's meant for romantic relationships but I think it applies to every relationship really... And the point is, maybe we don't have to try so hard all the time to make relationships work. Maybe sometimes, you have to just let go. Let the person go his or her private "moon" and if it's meant to last, it will.  


**Update**
I found it! (Here.)

**End of update**


I don't know... Just some of the things that I've been thinking about. And for the record, this is completely personal. I don't judge Facebook (and/or any other SNS) users and I don't think that they're bad things at all... I just think it's scary when these things start to have more control over you than you have them. And I felt a little like I was losing control...


I'd love to hear your thoughts!