A rumour spreads that, once again, Facebook have changed their privacy rules to some terrible thing… do you know, unusually, I haven’t even bothered reading the details. I don’t care. I’ve had enough of Facebook and this was just the excuse I needed to remind me to deactivate my profile.

Why? Well, crucially, Facebook seems to get most of its money from scammers advertising through it. This does not sit well with me. Learn the secret of white teeth! Turn yourself into a cartoon! Frustratingly, the tipp-ex they sell you for the teeth thing is highly toxic and they can’t turn you into a cartoon. You’re stuck as a 3D carbon based meatbag not matter what the adverts say.

Then there’s the incessant changing, making things more and more complicated. This is the wrong direction for a mainstream thing like Facebook – they are sowing the seeds of their own downfall, creating an opportunity for someone to come along and replace it with something easier to use, lighter, faster and less  annoying.

It seems every time I log in everything’s moved around again. It’s hopelessly overcomplicated – perfect for those who’ve got the time to spend all day playing on it, figuring out where all the buttons are and how to mute the constant stream of inane shit you’re supposed to put up with. I don’t want to go through a hundred screens to figure out how to protect my privacy properly, or how to avoid hearing that a certain person has become a vampire and do I want to become one too?

Just die already. You hear me, Facebook? Just go! Walk out the door! Don’t turn around now, you’re not welcome any more!

It occurs to me that social networking sites live or die by the sense that ‘everyone’ is on them – that would be ‘everyone’ in the sense of, “If ‘everyone’ were jumping off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff?” That ‘everyone’.