I deactivated, too, and I feel SO much better! (Although I just realized that when I deactivated in haste, I left an important message unread. Oops.)

There have actually been studies done that show that Facebook can cause people to feel worse about themselves.

When I was active on FB, I unsubscribed to almost everyone. I don't care about the things that people post. And TBH, most of the people I have as "friends" on FB weren't even current friends! They were all past classmates and co-workers and such.

I am sad that I ended up cutting off the only contact I had with one of my online friends. I met him on another site that I am no longer a member of, so we switched over to FB as a way to keep in touch. (He's not an email kind of person, and I understand....he's got PTSD like I do, and I actually went for a year without checking any of my email accounts once.)

I did fall for the whole "reconnect with your past" thing....well, more than once. It never ended well. I realized that most of those people belong exactly where they are....in my past. And TBH, I've changed SOOO much in the past few years, I'm not even the same person that those people knew.