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Jonathan's Farewell Address To Facebook

The period of my trial on facebook has now reached an end, and having considered all that this website has to recommend it, have decided to decline its embrace. It appears to me proper, especially as it may be conducive to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among your number.

On the subject of the impressions with which I first undertook this trial, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the website the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. I am satisfied that if any circumstances have given negative value to my experience they were not do to lack of effort on my part. I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the internet social scene, my amount of friends does not forbid it.

The unity of internet social interaction which constitutes for most of you one website is now very dear to the masses. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of social networking, the support of your blogs, of your emails, of your forum, of your pictures, of those very social interaction which you so highly prize, together in one place. And it is for this very ease of accessibility for which so many of you choose a social network. But if you would only imagine for a moment that these services were from different suppliers and from different websites much more pains will be taken on your behalf, many more artifices employed, on each of your social needs, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.

But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, seem, at the moment, to be greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Each of you must judge for yourselves the prudence in carefully guarding and preserving the union of this whole social network scheme.

I for one, have resolved for forgo this convenience in favor of quality, and replace this social network with services dedicated to my particular needs.

Farewell, and God bless.