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		<title>The Thing About Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhonda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Facebook, I&#8217;m sorry, but this just isn&#8217;t working out. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;ve been spending less and less time with you these days, and the fact is I think we need to break up. I&#8217;ve changed, you&#8217;ve changed&#8230;it&#8217;s just not the same. I used to think it was loads of fun looking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Facebook,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but this just isn&#8217;t working out. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;ve been spending less and less time with you these days, and the fact is I think we need to break up. I&#8217;ve changed, you&#8217;ve changed&#8230;it&#8217;s just not the same.</p>
<p>I used to think it was loads of fun looking up all the people I went to school with, looking at all their pictures, their kids, their cats, and it&#8217;s true you helped me locate friends I thought I had forever lost touch with, but that&#8217;s not enough anymore. It&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>And then Scrabulous got taken away. I think maybe that was the beginning of the end right there. Zombies and vampires are awesome, but Scrabulous beat them all hands down.</p>
<p>My favorite thing to do was to look at all my &#8220;friends&#8221; (and I have to put that in quotes Facebook because you and I both know that there are friends, and then there are &#8220;friends&#8221;. C&#8217;mon, admit it) statuses and feel like I was kept up to date on what was going on in their lives. I felt a connection, however vague, it was there. You keep changing your appearance and layout so much I can&#8217;t do that, and I feel like I need to constantly decipher you.</p>
<p>Also, what&#8217;s with the mood swings? You seem to randomly decide what you&#8217;ll show me on my feed and what you won&#8217;t &#8212; no matter what settings I change or what I tell you to show or hide. I don&#8217;t get it, this game you&#8217;re playing, and I am not willing to be a part of it. If you want to play your little powergames, you can do it alone.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, Facebook, I&#8217;m going to set another page as my home page. I know, I know, but you had to have seen this coming, surely?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll still come back once a day, Danica likes it when I play Pet Society with her, and I still sort of like the &#8216;Slots&#8217; and &#8216;Pull Tabs&#8217; apps, but that&#8217;s all. You are no longer going to be a place I spend much time, and I won&#8217;t try to count on you to keep up with my friend&#8217;s lives.</p>
<p>I have <a title="Rhonda Parrish @ Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/RhondaParrish">twitter</a> now, my <a title="Rhonda Parrish" href="http://www.rhondaparrish.com">blog</a>, and as always my faithful <a title="Rhonda Parrish @ LJ" href="http://rhondaparrish.livejournal.com/">live journal</a>. Plus, there&#8217;s email and *gasp* face-to-face meetings too. So I&#8217;m leaving you Facebook, I just need to make sure I tell all my friends there, so they&#8217;ll know where to find me.</p>
<p>I hope you find someone else, Facebook, and can be happy. I really do.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Rhonda</p>
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