Facebook: a win and a lose

I'm enjoying my break from Facebook. I made the break even stronger because I haven't let myself update my status once. My Facebook statuses are linked to my Twitter account so if I update my Twitter, I also update my Facebook. It's hard not to text Twitter. I love updating my status. It makes it easier to write here though. What I would squeeze into a 140-160 character text message I can expand in limitless amounts on my blog. That's nice.

It's making me consider taking a longer break from Facebook. That's so hard for me to contemplate. I love getting comments on statuses, pictures, anything on my profile. I don't like how blatant some of it can be. My privacy settings are thorough and detailed but I still worry about what might be seen that I can't close from the public eye.
I keep my friends list down to a minimum and I don't like to have more than 110. A helpful thing is that at least half of my friends are homeschoolers. Well, they're pretty safe! Jesus-loving, taught by Mom, grew up together people. Love them all. My life is so much better because of them being in it, even if I'm not as close to some of them as I used to be and I don't see them very often. They are in my heart and they won't ever leave it.

I'll have to look at my Facebook (tomorrow maybe, I'm still shunning it today) and see what exactly it means to "deactivate" an account. I don't want to delete it, just freeze it for awhile. The biggest thing I'll have a hard time with if I do it, is what will I miss? I'll be so closed out from everyone. It's my biggest link to the world. But at the same time, it's one of the most hurtful things too, and I don't even have people bullying me on the Internet. I'd have to turn off the Facebook/Twitter link and only have my Twitter page. That sounds dreadful. I WANT people to comment on my statuses! I don't have enough family (biological and unbiological) on Twitter for that to work. Ugh. What a battle that is to struggle with. No matter what the answer, it will be a win and a lose, whether I choose to keep it or choose to deactivate it. It will be a win and a lose.