Should I delete my Facebook account?

[B.C.]

I am trying to simplify my life. I have been taking piano lessons for two years and am starting to work out again. I'm ready to life "in the real world" again instead of the "virtual world". Should I send a message to my friends on my FaceBook along with my e-mail address and tell them if they want to keep in touch, to please e-mail me? (My friends on there consist of ex-coworkers, some current coworkers, my supervisor, a couple of friends, and several family members). My point is that social networking sites are like cocaine for me ... once I log on, I stay on (I have already deleted my MySpace account). Should I delete my Facebook account, too?

[flybishop]

For you it sounds like the best thing to do. But be warned that you can't ever "delete" your facebook account. You can deactivate it but all of your pictures and information remain on their servers. No one can see it, but if you ever decide to go back everything is there just the way you left it.

Another idea would be to schedule your online time. Pick on day a week, for an hour, catch up on things, then leave the house. Make a plan to go online a 1pm, then plan to meet a friend for coffee at 2pm, so that you HAVE to go offline.

[Timothy]

If it is like cocaine for you I would delete it. But if you can control yourself. I would keep it to keep in touch. Log On once a week to check out what your friends are doing. Its good you deleted your Myspace, what a waste of time.

[A Cruz]

simple- first send the note all your friends that your closing this account and keep in contact with you through email, then erase everything, then delete it just follow the steps, man!