Facebook free zone

I am not on Facebook. There are many reasons I am not, mainly I do not want to be found. It may sound, but I do not want to share every minute part of my life with everyone I knew from school circa 1990, thanks very much. If we were friends and drifted apart over time, there must have been a reason for it. I have moved on with my life, so why haven't you???!!!

Sometimes, I wonder if I should join. It might make keeping in touch with my friends easier. Then I read articles like this.

Then there are the stories of people being put out because someone ignored or turned down a friend's request. Are they really your friend or are you just getting your numbers up? Have you ever interacted with them, ever? Or are they on the friend's list of someone on your friends' list who you wouldn't know from Adam and you are only wanted to add to your friend's list to have more friends than anyone else? Really, get a life.

So, going off to uni, where everything seems to be relying on FB and you're seen as weird for not following the crowd, is going to be interesting without it. Am I going to join? No. I am very stubborn when I want to be. When FB gets something vaguely approaching ethics and I don't loose all rights to any data I would want to post there, I might change my mind.

In the meantime, I'll keep an eye on Google+ and see how that develops.