I want to interact with people, and Facebook can be a good vehicle for that interaction. Yet in 98% of the interactions, I am left feeling more alone than ever, unsure whether or not I have presented myself accurately — which is always a concern online — and whether or not I have “read” my contacts accurately.

This perspective comes from wanting to feel closer to someone after an interaction, and instead I feel more isolated.

To answer your question, it was a decision made of laziness. I don’t feel like spending the time to dismantle everything if I am going to return eventually with a healthier attitude about it.

I think it can be handy for certain small businesses that want to keep in touch with their customer base, but so far as organizing groups — I haven’t had much luck with it. I created a page for the San Francisco Flickr User Group (SFlickr) and no one really uses it, perhaps because it duplicates the functionality of so many other websites (Twitter, SFlickr.org, Flickr groups). Yet people may be starting to expect Facebook pages (like we started to expect Twitter accounts) so I will keep it up as a signpost for now.

Curious… what made you decide to keep pushing your other feeds to Faceboook even though you won’t be reading/interacting there?

I have been using FB for various ends and I find it sucks. Pardon the language but it does. it’s really NOT a way to organize organically and for the grassroots, it’s a race for “fans” that is meaningless (ask Gavin) and constantly changes in ways that are not benefitting grassroots efforts.

I get way more out of the Twtitter back and forth between good people such as yourself and others, and being informed by what’s going down “on the ground” when I can’t be there myself.

Facebook is too busy bolting on the world’s biggest picture sharing service onto a proprietary social networking service that has NEVER made money (thank YOU Karl Long!) and lying to its users, well, all I can say is you escaped!