Goodbye Facebook

I have just ripped of the band aid.
De-activated Facebook.
Goodbye
It feels surreal. Silly even, but I knew it needed to happen.

When I first started my FB account it was to keep in touch with a few friends and family back home in New Zealand after we moved to Australia. A place to share photos of our life and let people know whats going on in our world.

But it slowly became something I no longer liked. A weird sort of voyeurism, and it was taking over my world.

In essence the idea of facebook is good, but I was spending far to much time on it, reading about the comings and goings of people I hardly even know, friends from long ago and really it was all false relationship. I was also tired of having conversations with people that went something like this "How have you been?"...begin response "Yeah I saw that on Facebook" Its kind of a conversation killer.

So this morning i began to delete people who I didn't really need to communicate with, but it was CRAZY slow and I began to think again, just delete your account. I searched around for a while to see if I could download my photos and when I found the archive button under account settings I decided it was time.
I saved my pictures and deleted my account.

Gone!

Well not quite, they say its all there if i want to log back in again. Grrr.

Of course this means i will now use this place as a forum to share our lives with friends and family. Which is a good thing, because I want to continue blogging, I want this to grow.

And in order to grow I actually need to post. Haha

And now for a few gratuitous photos of my gorgeous children.

 Eli when he was here in June.

Yes I failed to post about it. hehe

 The girlies have been learning to skate. daddy is well pleased. apparently they are naturals. unlike their mother who will fall over just looking at the things.

 Us. taken at a recent carols event.

And finally, Boyboy, cuter than ever and nearly One.

Hope you are all still alive and kicking.

WEZA