Facebook ingredients: added hormones, pinch of ADD, and 1 big cup of procrastination

I keep going back and forth with my friend where we talk about a lot of different thoughts. The thoughts shared are understood mutually and respected as well. I like to think of it as the ideal friendship: talk to and listen to someone who can try and at least think of what you're trying to say (instead of having ADD and not caring to think). Our conversations range from work, to relationships, to spirituality; every time we write back to each other we almost always open the e-mail to new topics or introduce a new way of thinking of current traditions. Most recently, Facebook was brought up. I would like to thank my friend for making the points he made which gave me a more critical view of Facebook.
Most of my actions within society are sometimes viewed as weird or strange (or rebellious if you were to ask me) but a long time ago a very smart, wealthy, and incredibly successful entrepreneur taught me that my chances are better if I go the opposite way of where everyone is going. Keeping that motto in mind, I address the places and locations and even the actions of where everyone is going or seems to be going (sometimes everyone is going to drink the kool-aid but don't know where it is or why they're going) and draw my next steps through this thought process (which takes little to no time considering it's been easy to know where most everyone is going). You see not having a blackberry, crackberry, blueberry, or iphone or any electronic device that allows me to check Facebook anywhere I am, well that first of all gives one the anticipation to check it once they get home. Even so, I have friends who still can't get enough Facebook even with their mobile devices and still have to go on it when they get home. ADDITIVES GALORE!!!
When I shut down my Facebook account, I never looked back and still don't regret it, even with those "Why?!!!" "So you don't want to connect and network with friends and family?" questions. I still have yet to see or hear a handful of people being able to say "I don't have one either" or "I am going to delete my account" yet everyone admits they spend too much time on it. Two points I would like to present within this Facebook conversation: 1) Facebook still has yet to bring people 'together' and it is not a uniting, networking, social power it says and everyone says it is. 2) The power Facebook holds within the web and why
When my family texted and called me to ask why I had deleted my Facebook account, they proved themselves that Facebook is not the only way (and it's definitely not the best way) to connect with family. I was enjoying seeing older relatives on Facebook so they could see my loud, energetic characteristics that they enjoyed seeing when I was a youngin'.  They could also see I was still alive and living well in Massachusetts. Point being, they were so afraid of not being able to see me on Facebook... WHY?! Why should we let this online portal control how we feel about people? It was years that I hadn't talked to or seen my family and yet when I leave Facebook they get worried? Now I know for a fact, cause I've encountered very similar accounts with others, that it's not just my family, but it most definitely is Facebook itself controlling how we feel about losing friends or family, it may be worse than when we actually, physically, say goodbye to someone. Facebook has created such a feeling of security, of knowing where your family is, of where your friends are, of overall, stalking. If you really wanted to know where people who you care about are or what they're doing, you can always call or even write to them in person. Facebook making this 'easy' as people like to say, that's just a good excuse to easily stalk people and that's the truth. While I'm this point of 'connecting' with people, my friend brought about a point I hadn't thought about before: Facebook acts as the place to go to talk to and connect with people even while you're at home but yet there is nothing physical to it (unless of course you get physical with someone else on Facebook). As my friend said "I think when I get to the point, if I ever really have (this and that) it would be much easier [to get off of Facebook]. Sort of like college. But that''s what Facebook is I guess, social life 24/7... but then some of us get so wrapped up in it that we stop taking care of ourselves." Unfortunately it's the truth of this cycle called Facebook and he couldn't have said it any better: Wish and hope for better things around us but yet we're still hooked onto what is holding us back so much, but we go back to wishing and hoping, and then back to Facebook and on and on. The cycle never ends unless you control it and stop it, the cycle will control you.
Google almost has as much information as the Pentagon... How much does Facebook have of yours? Well considering your pictures, e-mail, your listed family members, personal favorites artists and movies, and a long, long list of everything considered 'personal', Facebook at the end of the day holds much of all we would not like to ever go out into the public.