Yesterday was “Quit Facebook Day“, but my guess is that you did not.  Only 34,961 “Committed Facebook Quitters” added their name to the cause.  34,000 is a nice number, until you remember that there are 40 Trillion Facebook users.  OK, I made that up, but I am not far from the truth.

Why didn’t we quit Facebook?  The privacy concerns are pretty legitimate.  Facebook has always just moved users along from change to change without a lot of input.  We do what we’re told, because we love Facebook.  We like to join Facebook groups with titles like, “I won’t pay $9.93 a month to use Facebook” or “Facebook should love us all.”  What we don’t want to do is actually leave Facebook.  We’re addicted to status updates and Farmville.  We get twitchy when we can’t see who friended who, or who might have been unfriended.

Social media is here to stay.  Facebook is like a cell phone was years ago.  We will not go without this technology any longer.  Do you remember leaving the house without a cell phone?  That is unthinkable today.  If you step back and think about it, our need to communicate with friends instantly is much the same.  All of my friends post pictures and updates while they are on vacation, or at the doctor’s office, or the park.  We see pictures of babies and our parties.  I read about my friends job changes, success, and frustrations.  Life is truly an open book.

Maybe we’ll quit next month.