Bye bye Facebook

In what seems to be turning into an annual trend, I've decided to kill off another of my social networks, this time doing away with Facebook. (Last year it was Myspace.) I may regret it later, but I'm making a conscious decision to eschew the voyeurism of Facebook in favor of an all-new social network called "My Addressbook." Cutting edge stuff, that--the idea is you actually track your friends by using the phone, calling them up periodically and actually speaking to them. How's that for mobile integration?

I'm a big fan of non-linear communication--email, IM, etc--but Facebook makes me personally less likely to interact with friends when i can simply watch their page for updates on their life. This in turn makes me feel more antisocial, and eventually is kind of depressing. My wife says I'm just blaming Facebook for my antisocial nature, and who knows, she may be right--but FB is definitely not helping matters any.

Over the next week or two I'll post a few more updates, and if you're already a friend on FB, please write down my contact information. As always, I'll be keeping my website (http://www.karmajunkie.com if you're [ironically] reading this on FB) and I decided to keep my twitter active as I have a lot of work contacts through there. Linkedin also made the cut, at least until it becomes less of a professional asset, so you can add me as a contact there if you're on LI.