I had a facebook account eons ago, when it first started to over take My Space. So, around 2008?
Within a year I realized:
1. The super!quick witty banter of my friends made me feel dumb and left out
2. I do not desire any contact with people I went to elem-high-olage with. Hated you then, unwilling to forgive you now.
3. I do not give a shit about other people's children.
4. I'm a socially uninterested/ing and miserable human being.
BUT I'm a much calmer and happier miserable human being without facebook. So I deleted my account around 2009. Lately I've also realized:
1. Most socialization now happens on facebook, and I'm increasingly being left behind, or left out from, my peer group and wider social movements
2. And that I'm increasingly losing any fluency I might have developed re: how the fuck the social site, and more broadly technology integrated with the sites, actually function, and in 20 years I'll be totally reliant on all those children I refused to coo over as babies to use, or even turn on my embedded iChip.
3. Thus, I will have finally turned into my mother.
So, there's that.