Experiment... Reduction of Personal Facebook use

Social networks are vitally important to us, especially with us all being so far apart. For some people, it might actually be the only place for sanity, or the ability to get help.

However, I've a blog (this one), and I've been slowing moving away from it and moving towards Facebook. I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and I've been noticing a trend that people don't want to use blogs, or emails to get in touch with me (not to mention that my little laptop doesn't really like a lot of the facebook stuff, and the email system they have is terrible for the way I work).

So, in a swift act of hitting the "x" against Facebook friends, I've reduced the page to a login only as an experiment. There will no doubt be a number of people worried that they have been de-friended. There might even be a number of people frightened that their friend counter reduced by one. Although, all of those on Facebook I was friends with seem to have a much better grasp of the fact that just because you were de-friended, doesn't mean I'm no longer a friend (right?)

I'll be honest; I think Facebook is really good. It helps people stay connected, allows problems to be shared and resolved, aids in understanding, and has collections of tolerant (for the most part) people communicating...

But ... (and here's my issue) ... only if you read and post statuses, links, and pictures.

I found that I don't read statuses, and I don't think that's good for my friends. If I'm your friend, I should be reading the statuses. I should notice when you post good things and reply "Good job, well done!", or you have a birthday and I should reply "congrats". I should notice when you say you're feeling down, and upset. But you post it, and me, as your friend, says nothing (or worst, you see me post something elsewhere, and wonder "sheesh, thanks a lot").

Personally, I don't think Facebook cares about you keeping up to date with your friends, as it's all about the recent posts.. It'd be nice to see "here are the posts since the last time you logged on" button... Funnily enough, that's what Blogs are for. Alright, there might be RSS feeds in Facebook, but hey, I've enough to keep tabs on. But that's just me and my opinion..

I'm struggling finding things to say on a blog, yet alone stating that "I'm feeling crappy" on Facebook (I have to force myself to do that, and I'm not liking that feeling).

Why not delete my account? Because I use it as a login for the Grove, and I think the amount of people who look for us on Facebook should get info, and events (which is where I'm going to start concentrating on).

Maybe I'll post more here.

ps. Email's on my blogger profile ...