I deleted or abandoned my social networks.
You saw that correctly--
No facebook. No twitter. No livejournal.Why?
I've been thinking for quite a while that I use them too much and that they are just media clutter. There are much better things I can do with my time, especially going into my last year of nursing school. I also rely on them to effortlessly maintain my friendships. And that's really uncool.
Why now?
The final straw was thinking that I don't like it when facebook tells me that my friends are, say, getting married or having babies. This, childish as it may be, hurts my feelings. It also makes me feel like it's high time that I should be getting married and having babies (things which, though they are age appropriate and would be pretty fun, just don't fit into my life plan at the moment). Does facebook get to hurt my feelings? Does it get to make me feel like I'm weird for not doing what everyone else is doing? No. That's weird.
As for Twitter and LiveJournal? Same bat time; different bat place. Plus I'd all but stopped using Twitter, and it seems that I only use LJ to complain about school--no one wants to read about it everyday, and there's no way I'm ever going to forget how school has effected me.
So since I identified the problem, I thought I'd go ahead and fix it.
Part of me thinks that If I'm really close to someone I'll know what's going on anyway, and the rest of me thinks that not knowing will be fun to talk about when my path eventually does cross with those of my acquaintances.
It's been five days since I said goodbye to my internet addictions, and I have to say...it's been surprisingly easy. It may not be a forever thing, but it's definitely a great thing for now. Ahh, I could get used to this...
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