A year without Facebook

I am about to mark a year that I have gone without having a Facebook account.  I can't really give exact reasons for deleting it.  I was just frustrated with it one day, felt I was spending too much time fooling around on it, and wasn't really using it to communicate with friends so I just deleted it.  In a sense it has been liberating.  There was no sense of having to spend hours on my computer in the afternoons and evenings to catch up on others lives, or to look through hundreds of pictures.  I was much more efficient with timing on school work. 

Now that I have been without it for a year, I am more able to look at the site better as a whole.  I better understand what good that it is giving us.  It IS a very easy way to get in contact with many people at once, and to quickly track down old and new friends.  I will give it credit for that. However, there is still something that I see in Facebook which troubles me and I can't put my finger on it.  Maybe it is the hours of potential homework I see lost in those around me, or the sense that it can replace phone calls or setting dates and making plans in person.

I guess in the end I am still not convinced.  I have not felt left out enough to feel the need to rush back and create a new profile.  So call me, write me, I would love to tell you what is going on in my life, I'll even use full words and sentences so nothing gets cut out in a word limit!