Has Anyone Deleted Their Facebook Profile?

I love facebook and can't imagine deleting my profile. It has been a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends and family. I do not post things everyday and am careful about what I post. I have deleted people or hid them because of the things they posted, but not that many. I enjoy reading about people's vacations, kid's accomplishments and funny stories. I will admit that I have had a few bad experiences in the past, but learned from them. I am careful about what I say and the comments I make. Before I post anything, I think, "Do I want the world to know this?" I do not post controversial, political statements, nor do I comment on them. During the recent election, there was a lot of ugliness. There are a lot of people that use facebook as a forum for their personal agenda, but I just ignore or delete that stuff.

My sister deleted her profile several years ago because old boyfriends were contacting her and it was a problem for her and her husband. I asked her, "Why not just delete these men or never friend them in the first place?" You are not obligated to accept every friend request you receive. I did ask my teenage son to delete his profile (he had nearly 1,500) friends a year ago. Most of them he did not know and there was some awful stuff on it. He created a new profile and is more careful about friending people and what he personally posts. He is required to friend me! I reminded him that colleges and future employers will be looking at his facebook.

Facebook is not that different from participating in this blog. Mamapedia is a little more anonymous, but still can have the same pitfalls if you misuse it.
The only negative facebook has for me is that it can be a big time waster! I love to play games, but would play games in some other format if I didn't have facebook.

I love it, but I work from home, so it is kind of my "social life". No water cooler here in my house :)
I have many friends from elementary school, and realized at 46 that I was not over getting picked on by a few girls in 8th grade, so I deleted them. Therapy anyone? Hahahaha.
FB is a blast for me (at least for now, I might suddenly get a life, who knows?)
~A.
(aka facebook/KellyBundysEvilTwin)

nope. facebook has been nothing but awesome for me. i've found old friends, i get to share in my kids' small daily triumphs and frustrations (they're both grown and gone), i get to see and share pictures, and it frequently gives me great belly laughs.
like any other technological tool, it's what you make of it. mine is fun.
khairete
S.

I haven't deleted mine but I sure have unfriended or hid a lot of people over the years. Plus, I'm not one of those people that likes to see how many friends I can collect...I seriously don't know 800 people so I would never friend that many :-) That being said, I would miss it for sure because there are people I would probably never talk to again in my life were it not for FB. But I do understand your point, it can be draining at times, especially during an election year!

I had a falling out with my family of origin over the summer. For me, I needed to simplify so I walked away from Facebook. I have gotten the urge to log back in a few times, but I am still ok with my "break."

Since then, I have been having more face to face interactions with people I care about.

I haven't deleted mine, but I have changed how I use it. I used to post things all the time on FB. Then, realizing the what my youngest sis was posting was either inappropriate or just a post to post, I realized I wasn't doing much better. Posting "Looking forward to some me time!" isn't really a worthwhile post. It accomplishes nothing. So now, if I DO post anything, it will normally be a pic or a funny story about one of our girls or maybe a link that I want to share with someone, like a workout article that I want my other sister to see.
I do think that it can cause problems, but like Suz T. said, it's what you make of it.