Are you wasting your life on Facebook?

“It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.” Harmsen.

This quote above and the comment below, come from a NY Times article titled Facebook Exodus.

“Unless Facebook begins to offer something real, something tangible for both its users and business clients; unless it begins to offer something that makes a measurable impact on user lives and fills more than just a need to be noticed, it will always be the plain number 1, no mayo, no mustard, no ketchup, no cheese, with a small fry, a small coke and a cheap plastic toy inside.” John, NY, in the comments section.

For the record, I did try Facebook. Twice to be exact. The second, and last time I tried it, I wasted 30-minutes of my life doing…not much.

If the only reason you are using Facebook is to get noticed; to prod someone or to kill some time, then it’s time to disconnect. Go buy a postcard for a friend and write it in a park. Radical idea I know, but receiving a postcard is cool, for the simple fact that so much of our communication with friends, family and colleagues is done via the Internet.

If you are using Facebook to network and grow your business, then make sure it’s real. If it is fake, then to paraphrase Seth Godin, it is nothing more than “a useless distraction”.

My Facebook account is schedule for deletion in the next week or two. RIP.

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