I’ve suspended my Facebook account.  I didn’t go the whole way and delete it, but I suspended it.  I’m going to let it go a month or two and see if I really want to delete it, but right now I’m leaning that way.

I just hate Facebook.  I guess the real reason is obvious.  Facebook is for connecting with people and I really don’t want to connect with them– at least not the way Facebook does it.  People I know and respect either have no Facebook account, or do have one and never post.  Meanwhile my “friends” that I haven’t seen since grade school or in-laws that I see far too much anyway are constantly posting inane quotes, “Jesus loves you because” posters, neoconservative revisionist history, or internet legends so old that Snopes just laughs at it.

On Facebook, every comment, every opinion is equal.  Well, that’s not quite true.  On Facebook, if you have lots of “likes” then your opinion is worthwhile.  If a million people “like” a stupid thing, it’s still a stupid thing.