Facebook, Orkut: Aideu

Today, I am 'deactivating' my web-presence on Facebook, orkut (I was hardly active on it). Some people might consider this killing the whole "social networking" part of one's life as dead, but after analysing the pros and cons I finally decided in favour of getting away. I have tried to compile my thoughts and arrange them in order of priority.

Pros:

1. Keeping in touch with distant friends, looking at old pictures of friends and getting high on nostalgia and remembering the good times.
2. Get to know someone you met recently, a little more deeply, common friends, interests, et cetera
3. Farmville, shared videos and "interesting links". You know that most of people you know are still alive and have not been productive :D

Cons:

1. Empowering real life: Maybe I would miss out on the latest funky pictures of my friends, maybe I would miss the latest burn someone posted on a friend's wall. Eh ! Doesn't matter, atleast I would get to see all this in real life.
2. Time has become a scarce commodity: I have to admit this, I was spending too much time on my e-life.
3. Micro-blogging killing the experience: I was reading a blog I had written about some of my experience in Europe, and as I was reading it, I could remember all those experiences so vividly. Imagine, how a facebook update would have been, "Had great fun in Paris, ... ", how sad ! Maybe, I have been wrong, I should write a blog for stories which I want to recollect, but alas, my laziness ! I would instead write a status message.
4. My dear friends know where to find me. Why do I need facebook then ?

I don't think, that quitting facebook and other social networking sites, I am shutting myself off from the world; I think that it is failing to serve the purpose in my case.

Friends, please add me to your gmail contacts, I may not have your address on my contact list.