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I Deactivated My Facebook... and what a relief it is!

A year ago, I reached a point in my life where I felt like deactivating my Facebook.  I'd found myself checking Facebook every few hours, just to see who was posting what.   And at the same time, I was seeing little spats flare up all over.  The reasons were petty (to my way of thinking).  Someone made a comment to a friend, a third person thought it was a dumb comment (even though it wasn't directed to him) and made the mistake of saying so.  You can guess the rest. But friends persuaded me to rethink.  So I did.  They said it was a great way to inform teachers of activities.  So I created groups and added teachers.  Later I made some of them admins.  They didn't need me around. They said it was a great way to share photos. Unfortunately I don't really like sharing my photos, unless the photos were of school events. They said FB helped keep friends in contact. I gave it a go... and found myself using email and SMS more often than FB, using various apps such as Fring,