My few weeks as a facebook free hermit.

So here we are a few weeks of being facebook free. I'd love to say life without facebook has turned my home into a pristine gleaming palace but children do live here so that is not the case. Is facebook a huge timesuck? Absolutely. Is it an emotional drain? It can be, I mean really who wants to hear 200 plus people complaining about trivial things everyday? Not me and the irony is not lost that I have been just as guilty of doing this. One thing I have realized is I don't miss facebook as much as I thought I would. There are people I miss being connected to and than there are those I do not miss at all. Do I need to be connected with every person I ever knew or worked with or met once? Would they say hi to me if we passed in the streets? Probably not. When I do go back a trimming of the friendslist will happen... again, I do frequently trim but have had a hard time being more firm with trimmings for worry of hurting feelings. Yes I said when I go back. The drawback of not being on facebook is I have lost a way of people I do want to be in contact with having a way to contact me. I'm not much into texting or talking on the phone and correspondence even by email seems to be a dying thing so there really is no way to be connected. The time away has given me time to reflect about how I want to move forward with my account when I do return. All in all I do not regret the decision at all. I enjoy being somewhat of a hermit and I feel like my break was just an extension of that.