No Facebook.

Last October I made a conscious decision to deactivate my Facebook account. After a manic session of 'de-tagging' and panicking that the boy I was dating has now seen the cringey drunk picture of me from Saturday night, I realised I cared too much about what people thought. The constant stalking of people I wouldn't even call 'friends' left feelings of envy and the stress of what my Facebook picture should be, wasted so much of my time. Alas, I deactivated my account. I was a bit annoyed that Facebook doesn't actually allow you to delete your account, leaving you with the option to long back in whenever and wherever. It is a bit creepy how the Internet has so much access to your personal life and this made me even more dedicated to keeping it deactivated. Yet people seem so shocked when I say 'oh actually no I don't have Facebook,' 'what?! You don't have Facebook? So how do you keep up with what people are doing' or 'oh you're trying to be cool and not have Facebook.' Both statements equally as irritating. Luckily in this century we have been gifted with what we call mobile phones so this may ironically seem like the old- fashioned way, but I keep in touch with my closest friends through texting and calling on my mobile phone. And I am not trying to be 'cool' or edgy by not having Facebook, I feel I have been much happier now that I'm not worrying that some people are going on five holidays a year and I'm not. However, despite this shift away from one social media site, I felt I couldn't remove myself from social/online media entirely. Thus, my Twitter site that I started in 2011, was resurrected and I began tweeting. This was shortly followed by me downloading Instagram when I bought my iPad. I got carried away by following Cara delevigne and the other young supermodels and obvers the Kardashian clan. However, strolling through their images everyday I feel less envious as I cannot say they're even an acquaintance, their lives are completely different to mine, it's just simply a form of escapism. So with these two forms of social media to update me on news, celebrity gossip and fashion, I am still not inclined to get my Facebook account back and so the re-activation temptation has long been forgotten.