As you may have noticed, I no longer have a Facebook account.  Over the last year or so, I found that I was using the website less and less due to a busy work / home schedule as well as a declining interest in the site.  I tried adding all kinds of new friends (high school, college, etc), thinking that if I had more people to follow it might re-ignite my interest in that form of communication.  Instead, I found that I was overwhelmed by the number of posts and that I never made it past the first page before just leaving Facebook. 

Since I wasn’t using Facebook much and realized that my wife wasn’t using it either, I recently began to question why I even still had an account.  This week,  I tried reducing the number of friends that I had on Facebook to make the friend list more manageable, but then I felt bad about keeping some people and getting rid of others.  So in the end, I decided that my Facebook page should just go to the same place that my Myspace page did – A place called “Deactivated”.

If you follow the blog, you are a family member or good friend and we probably communicate with you outside of Facebook anyway.  We will continue to stay in touch with you using other methods of communication (email, phone, person-to-person when we can). 

I will also continue to do occasional blog entries with pictures and descriptions of anything important going on in our lives for those of you who follow this blog.

And the good news is that if I find that life without Facebook is unbearable, I can always reactivate my account as indicated in the nice, personal email I got from Facebook: