A few months ago I killed/deleted all my social media accounts, that includes Facebook that I visited frequently, several Twitter handles that I rarely if ever at all used, tried to delete my Google+ but had to reopen it to be able to properly use YouTube (I don't comment or share videos, but needed to make channels and lists). I only kept my LinkedIn profile for professional reasons (I am in HR) and a Pinterest profile that I mainly use as a scrapbook for cool stuff but rarely share content with my 3 contacts that I know in real life.

When I did have a Facebook profile I rarely posted and when I did my post was lost in the myriad of posts and received little to no attention, example I would post a picture of my wife and I and have 3 likes, when she posted the same picture on her profile she would get 50+ all because her profile was more visible had more contacts and she was more active than I was, I was a huge man with the tiniest of voices in there and didn't feel compelled to share a bunch of stuff so I only lurked and liked, maybe comment every now and then on other posts. That's the way Facebook works and i get it, but I disliked being a consumer of people's lives through Facebook and being up to date on everything they did that by the time we actually met in person we didn't have much to talk about (has this happened to anyone else), and then it started happening with my wife and I knew I had to put a stop to it. So I terminated my electronic persona and never looked back.

I've been happy for the most part with my decision it has helped me worry less about what other people might think and spend less time on my phone, I used to be an internet explorer but Facebook ended that, it consumed pretty much all of my online activity and now I am starting to explore again the vast plain of The Internet, so much cool stuff out there that I missed.

On the other hand on real life, outside of my family and some friends that I can count with the fingers on one hand, I don't have that many meaningful connections. My friends from college are gone (I realized that they were my friends but I wasn't theirs), some of my colleagues at work are cool and all but I wouldn't call them my friends (except one of them that I already considered with those fingers on that one hand).

I've never had a large group of friends but I feel that nowadays with everything happening online friendships have moved from a physical world to a digital one, and I am not sure I like it, I enjoy having a candid conversation in person, video chat doesn't feel the same even those telepresence rooms. I guess I am a bit old fashioned that way, and I know that there's a bit of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) going on, but lately it has made me think that maybe I am the one that is wrong about this whole thing. I don't know for sure, but I will find out sooner or later.

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