'Quit Facebook Day' looks like a flop

Looks like someone started a movement out there, and it ain't moving:


'Quit Facebook Day' Looks Like a Flop: "Today is 'Quit Facebook Day,' and it you haven't heard of it—or have no plans to walk away from your 437 friends—you're not alone. PC Magazine reports that the effort to get the masses to abandon the social networking site looks like a bust. A recent survey of..."


Now hear this: You don't do something like this because it's cool. You don't do something like this because everybody else is doing so.


If you get the urge to quit Facebook (like I did), you do so 'cause you're ticked off, 'cause your own ox got gored, or 'cause you yourself have decided the social medium is more trouble than it's worth. That's all. You might write about it (again, like I did), but you don't start a movement.


Got all that? Good. 


The herd mentality is alive and well, but sometimes the folks don't herd.

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