You could say that Google and Facebook are brothers, because they get with each other so well, they are very often interconnected and share many common practices and strategies. Although Google is older in the open internet market, Facebook was actually "my first love". Yes, I created a Facebook account before I even had a Google one.

At that time, I think it was 2009, we didn't quite have smartphones and I didn't really need google, for other than as a searching engine. For emails, yahoo was doing its job perfectly and at that time the emails with @gmail in the queue seemed strange. Like one should only use yahoo. Probably same thing will happen with Facebook.

I created a Facebook account at that time because more and more people had one, I liked a girl who already had Facebook, and I had no choice than to have one too. I had to enter the network, the largest and most famous social network on earth. It didn't last long though and I deleted it. At that time you could delete your Facebook account from day to day, not having to wait for 30 days like nowadays.

I lived for a few years as a savage, without being part of what would become the world-wide spider net of those who reveal everything online, from identity to children's pictures, and to the greatest joys in life. In 2013, I realized there's no life without the blue pill and I created a new Facebook account. This time I was very determined and even did that on my full name, so I could be found by anyone, anytime and could not be confused with others. I took my place in the world.

This marriage with one of the dirtiest internet projects that I have ever been a part of lasted for four years. A project, which in my opinion, was never born in Zuckerberg's bedroom. Rather in CIA labs, but that's a different story, for another post. I decided to close my Facebook account in 2017 because I felt restricted and felt like living in a fenced teritory.

Having one of the most popular applications in the world at hand and the chance to meet, communicate and interact with almost anyone, anytime, even more so to find anyone anytime and to "read his/her life", I felt restricted, and I decided to jump over the fence back into the wild, for good. A savage world I had left four years ago that was about to welcome me back with a warm smile and open arms was there to catch my fall.

In what way did I feel restricted? Psychically of course. It often happened that I saw myself spending hours in a row with my eyes glued on a phone screen, admiring or not, the lives of other people, becoming frustrated with what they had and I didn't, proud of what I had and they didn't, and often creating false principles of life that beyond Facebook had absolutely no value.

However, the vast majority of people owning smartphones and an internet connection still have Facebook, and use it relentlessly, even though I have given up on it for a long time. Even if this virtual world mentally destroys some of them, while serving them cheap advertisements on exactly the products they need, and while collecting almost every possible personal data about their identity, personality, family and preferences, they refuse to leave. Don't even have the eyes for that fence.

I have talked many times with people who seem to understand what Facebook really is, but not even one has managed to escape the blue spider'S net. They go ahead carrying this little CIA in their pockets, for the sake of friends, to keep in touch with family, to check from time to time what the ex does, or who knows what other reasons. It's an open book with seemingly infinite pages that refuses to be closed.

Beyond the Facebook fence, because in reality it has built a fence, something similar to what Trump wants to achieve, life is normal and even beyond normal. So normal that if I want to know what a friend or a family member is doing, I call him, if I want to have a video conversation or chat, I can do this through whatsapp or telegram, but the ads served under the nose and the news shared with Facebook ruthless I really don't need.

It may seem strange at a first glance, but in my opinion, Facebook is a hundred times more harmful to people's mental and even physical health than it might be healthy for them. Those of you who have never had a Facebook account probably know what I'm talking about, and you probably see this in the people around you who use it and kind of fit my description, and for those who still have it and use it regularly, I suggest you try a Facebook detox treatment for at least a week. You won't die, believe me.

Thanks for attention,
Adrian