Note to Facebook
Dear Facebook,
I am not sure right now whether or not I should even deliver this letter to you, but I feel that I need to get my feelings written down and out on a social network where I feel secure (like lj).
The terms of our relationship have been in constant flux since our first I laid my weary, dry, and tired, eyes on your goofy page features. Since that fateful day you have found a special place in my heart, and I came to rely on you more and more. You even have become very dear to many of my friends and family members.
Still, I am not sure how comfortable I am with the fact that our relationship has been in flux all this time. You constantly expose me, my information, my pictures, to security changes - which leaves me wide open for all sorts of abuse (identity fraud - as if anyone would really want to be me, though, certainly not when it comes to my credit!) and embarrassment. I feel it is unfair for you to do these things without first discussing the changes with me. I feel like you only take my feelings into account after the fact. I feel like you would go on just fine without me and probably not even notice if I was gone.
I realize that this might make social gatherings more awkward when people ask about you and I say I "broke up" with my profile. But I have to let you know that I am very seriously considering that it is time in my life that I moved past such fickle social networking and settled on something with more rock solid designs, something that will grow and change with me if and when I want it to, but not something that will force it's every whim upon me and sell me out for profit.
I know how popular you are Facebook, and that's why I think you will get through this separation unscathed.
I regret that it has come to this, and I would still very much like to maintain our relationship. But you only have so long to comply with my needs before I end it all and click that "delete" button terminating our relationship.
If and when it does come to that, I would just like to let you know that I appreciate all the time we spent together and how close you grew to my family and friends - and how you brought us together in new ways. But I just can't continue going on faking that I accept all the changes you've made. Heck, it might take me a few months to navigate your changes fully, and by then I suspect you will be a different creature altogether.
Take care, and never forget our time together (but please delete all unnecessary information from cyber-space).
-Pamela
P.S. - This is not the end, this is just a note to tell you how serious I am about ending our relationship if you can't change for the better for once.
I am not sure right now whether or not I should even deliver this letter to you, but I feel that I need to get my feelings written down and out on a social network where I feel secure (like lj).
The terms of our relationship have been in constant flux since our first I laid my weary, dry, and tired, eyes on your goofy page features. Since that fateful day you have found a special place in my heart, and I came to rely on you more and more. You even have become very dear to many of my friends and family members.
Still, I am not sure how comfortable I am with the fact that our relationship has been in flux all this time. You constantly expose me, my information, my pictures, to security changes - which leaves me wide open for all sorts of abuse (identity fraud - as if anyone would really want to be me, though, certainly not when it comes to my credit!) and embarrassment. I feel it is unfair for you to do these things without first discussing the changes with me. I feel like you only take my feelings into account after the fact. I feel like you would go on just fine without me and probably not even notice if I was gone.
I realize that this might make social gatherings more awkward when people ask about you and I say I "broke up" with my profile. But I have to let you know that I am very seriously considering that it is time in my life that I moved past such fickle social networking and settled on something with more rock solid designs, something that will grow and change with me if and when I want it to, but not something that will force it's every whim upon me and sell me out for profit.
I know how popular you are Facebook, and that's why I think you will get through this separation unscathed.
I regret that it has come to this, and I would still very much like to maintain our relationship. But you only have so long to comply with my needs before I end it all and click that "delete" button terminating our relationship.
If and when it does come to that, I would just like to let you know that I appreciate all the time we spent together and how close you grew to my family and friends - and how you brought us together in new ways. But I just can't continue going on faking that I accept all the changes you've made. Heck, it might take me a few months to navigate your changes fully, and by then I suspect you will be a different creature altogether.
Take care, and never forget our time together (but please delete all unnecessary information from cyber-space).
-Pamela
P.S. - This is not the end, this is just a note to tell you how serious I am about ending our relationship if you can't change for the better for once.