Facebook is ruining my Life

  I did it.  I de-activated my Facebook account.  I think that it really was ruining my life...or maybe just shaping it in a way that I wasn't enjoying.
People say, "Facebook makes it easier to keep in touch with people!"  Yeah...I agree to a point...
Do I really need to be friends with everyone from Fortuna High, Class of 1998?  I was not too fond of most of those people to begin with...why am I adding them?
I think that it was fun for a while, finding people you lost touch with, or people finding you....but...is there a reason we lost touch?  People that I care about, I still keep in touch with, with out Facebook.  I am wondering what percent of people that I am no longer in touch with on fb will actually email or call me.
  There is a little drama with this story; it was not simply a, "I have decided to simplify my life" decision....well, it was, but borne of weired stuff.  Fb use to be friends and co workers, new people, I would say age group 15-35 exct...but then, a different age group started to use it...35-55...and I started seeing more family members on there..parents exct....  Now, my grammie is on there.  The last age group.
I don't have anything to hide, and I do not believe in censoring myself.  I believe that if you are going to request me as a friend on fb, you get the SAME thoughts, videos, political commentary as EVERYONE ELSE.  I refuse to tailor my image to what ever it is you think you want me to be, or simply just to be agreeable.
My entire family is right wing conservative republicans.  That is not a problem with me, at all.  I respect their right to have an entirely different opinion than mine. I believe that political discourse is healthy and wonderful even if we do not agree.  But people started to get angry and disrespectful and take things personally.  If you decide to comment, for instance, on a post I put up about wikileaks, EXPECT that we are going to have an argument.  But that works BOTH ways.  If you comment on my posts, I am also going to comment on yours and you can't get mad about that.  It's just FACEBOOK, that is how it works.
Facebook use to be about communication for me.  I thought it was wonderful to be able to communicate with other people in my family, especially because I am living in Hawaii and have less contact with them than I use to have.  I feel like the communication has stopped and now it is just being used to spy on me, and quite frankly, fodder for gossip.  Its fine if we don't agree, but calling me a left wing nut job is kind of disrespectful, especially since I don't refer to anyone like that.  Or to believe that everything I think or find interesting is misinformation.
I felt like people were taking it very personally, it's just facebook, its not real life, as my friend Alondra reminded me, it's a part of modern life.  For something that is supposed to be fun, it
I think that I was spending too much time on facebook.  I deactivated it not only as a statement, but also because Alondra is right, it's not life.  Moving is hard, making friends is harder.  Maybe I have been using it as a substitute for really living.  I like to hide, and I think fb was making it easier for me to feel like I am living and interacting when in reality, it was not.

So, there you have it. No more facebook for me.  It has been about 12 hours and I am still alive and already looking for better more productive ways to fill my time.  I am not saying this decision is for everyone.  I understand that social media is changing the way we interact with one another, but for me, I am sticking to good old email, or phone calls, or texts....