Goodbye, Facebook

At least for now. I may reactivate my account in the future.

I've been heading towards a Facebook departure for a while; it's just not how I want to spend time, connect to my friends, etc.

This article also had something to do with it: Leaving Facebookistan.

Zuckerberg’s business model requires the trust and loyalty of his users so that he can make money from their participation, yet he must simultaneously stretch that trust by driving the site to maximize profits, including by selling users’ personal information. The I.P.O. last week will exacerbate this tension: Facebook’s huge valuation now puts pressure on the company’s strategists to increase its revenue-per-user. That means more ads, more data mining, and more creative thinking about new ways to commercialize the personal, cultural, political, and even revolutionary activity of users.

Cory Doctorow has been railing against FB for a while. Maybe his arguments got to me too.