After a lot of dithering and coming up with reasons not to I have finally deactivated both my Twitter and Facebook accounts. I don't use them and just can't see myself doing so any time soon. I had previously deleted accounts on a number of services that I had joined over the ... colinwalker.blog

@colinwalker Nice post. I just posted a similar “I’m leaving Facebook” post tonight. Feels good to be finally leaving the big services behind.

@thomasbibby Thanks. I completely agree with your reasons. It certainly feels empowering to have done it.

@colinwalker great post. Facebook in particular is not adding anything interesting to my life.

@colinwalker Sincere congratulations. I haven’t gotten so far as to delete my accounts (primarily because I want to avoid namespace pollution), but I wholeheartedly agree with your perspective on participation on those increasingly toxic platforms.