1. 2 years ago 

   TECHNOLOGY: “Friends No More” Jumping off the SOCIAL NETWORKING bandwagon

   I really appreciated this article in USA Today yesterday.

   I wonder if any of us would be willing to go this far. 

   ‘Friends’ no more?

   For some, social networking has become too much of a good thing

   By Marco R. della Cava
   USA TODAY 

   Facebook reports that it has 400 million active users worldwide. Make that 399,999,999. Laura LeNoir is done.

   “I feel better, I feel lighter, I got my privacy back,” says LeNoir, 42, an office manager at an educational software company in Birmingham, Ala., who logged off a few weeks ago. “People say, ‘You’ll be back.’ But I read more, walk the dogs more. I’ll be fine.”

   As the social networking train gathers momentum, some riders are getting off.

   Their reasons run the gamut from being besieged by online “friends” who aren’t really friends to lingering concerns over where their messages and photos might materialize. If there’s a common theme to their exodus, it’s the nagging sense that a time-sucking habit was taking the “real” out of life.

   “When I first closed my Facebook account, I felt disconnected from the world and missed the constant updates,” says Leanna Fry, 32, of Provo, Utah, who is teaching English in Erzurum, Turkey. She signed off after feeling harassed by strangers. “But I’ve discovered I don’t have to know what hundreds of people are doing. Now I have more time for people who really matter in my life.”

   Read the rest of the article @ http://tinyurl.com/y85qbqc

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