[SingDanceRunLife]

Because of my breakup with my fiance and the drama that was surrounding it and partly because of Facebook, I decided to deactivate my account so I can't post anything that would be cause for drama, and no one could post on my wall either.

It's been a bit over 24 hours, and I feel like I'm missing out on what's going on, but at the same time, not going on Facebook has been a lot easier than I thought it would be. My hiatus will probably end Monday, but I'm glad that I'm doing it.

Anyone else ever done something like this?

[healingme4me]

A three to four year hiatus, I took, around the time of my divorce. I take days off, at a time.

Sorry to hear about your breakup

[SingDanceRunLife]

Thanks. It sucks, but it had to be done. And at least this time I was the dumper rather than the dumpee (first time for that one). I was shocked at how much it still hurt though. I wasn't expecting it to hurt that much when I was the one who chose to break things off.

I'm only 24, so I can't imagine being off Facebook for that long because it's the only way I communicate with a large number of people, so I'm thinking a long weekend is probably enough to have had things die down. But we'll see if I feel like I need to wait longer or not. I only tried to check it once today, and it was just out of habit, and when my phone told me I wasn't logged in, I remembered that I had deactivated my account and just went and did something else.

[Sabrina]

I'm sorry for your break-up and well done on doing what needed to be done for your healing.

I don't post anything personal at all on facebook. Not even a photo of myself. Only my dogs. Nothing exciting ever happens on my facebook. And I've only been on facebook for less than a year. But saying that, I get loads of pleasure from viewing funny dog and cat videos and the like, so I would hate to have to deactivate my account.

[SingDanceRunLife]

My posts are usually boring and go something like "dinner, movie and bed." The most personal status I posted lately was saying I broke things off with him because I was tired of getting questions so I decided if I just made a status about it people would know. And it worked. But like I said, Facebook is my only means of staying in touch with some people, so I couldn't go completely without it.

[Smileonmyface]

i had an account for years with a lot of personal photos and stuff that i deleted about a year ago. like completed deleted, after going through periods of deactivating it. i was uncomfortable having the pictures there and stuff.
i started another account about six months ago but i don't post anything like personal pictures on it, or if i do i make them completely private so only i can see them. it is useful as a means of getting pictures from my phone to my laptop that way, because i can save them to the laptop off facebook. otherwise i use it to keep up with local stuff through groups and pages there.
i was playing a lot of games on it but the novelty of that has worn off at the moment.

i am sorry for your break up. it sounds like a good decision to stay off fb for a while right now. if you wanted to go back on, perhaps you can limit what you "follow" so it is just what you want to see? i do that often when i don't want to deal with people's pictures and stuff. one thing i will say for fb they have made it very easy to customize lately.

[Nyx_]

I still have a facebook account but I just don't use it anymore, haven't posted anything in well over a year I don't think. It was useful in the past, but not any more.

[SingDanceRunLife]

Being out of school and not having started work yet, it is very hard to be off Facebook. But I've made it almost 48 hours.

I'm just so used to checking it throughout the day because I always have it open in a tab, just like I do with PC among other things...and I have no idea what's going on this weekend if anything good, I'm sure I'm missing lots of pictures of my cousin's baby who was just born, pictures and videos of my crazy nephew...

Monday morning, I'll get back on and if anyone causes any drama, then bye-bye. I purge my friends list about two times a year anyway.

[SingDanceRunLife]

72 hours after deactivation: It's technically Monday morning...and I was still up because I was binge watching a show, so I logged in...and well, I scrolled down a little, went to my cousin's page to see the pictures I missed...and then was bored and done. Facebook really isn't all it's cracked up to be, is it?

I do not understand obsession and not being able to take time off it. Although I do understand it being an easy way to communicate. I don't go online for days at a time. I'd go longer if not for work.

[Serzen]

I deleted my account and don't want to return.

I think life is healthier without social media.

[SingDanceRunLife]

I don't have an obsession with Facebook. I just like to be in the know in the lives of my friends that I don't communicate with in other ways. I also follow Kati Morton (a licensed therapist and YouTube sensation), political groups and other things.

So I might go on vacations from Facebook in the future, but I'm definitely not going to give it up completely because that would mean cutting people out of my life who I really don't want to cut out of my life. Some friendships are best left in cyberspace (and I don't mean friends you meet online, I actually know all of my Facebook friends, but some of them I met and didn't get contact info of, just remembered names)...