I closed my FB account around last November, like Sue it was beginning to annoy the hell out of me. Unsolicited ads that were totally irrelevent to anything I'm interested in, people posting stuff like "going for a wee now" or "Off to the shops to buy some milk" .......Why would I be interested in knowing that? The greater percentage of folks I had as "friends" I'd never even met and most were bloody annoying or just plain dull - certainly in the virtual world they were anyway, and I'm glad i never got to meet any of them in real life.
So, why have i just opened a new account? Blame my daughter - she asked me to. She lives in Vancouver, Canada and I'm in Lancashire England and she misses our little FB chats - I must admit I missed them too. I used to leave FB open and would often get the little "Lizzi" prompt telling me she was there and we'd "chat" for ages. FB also allows me to keep up with her day to day life and what she's been doing etc so it does have it''s uses. I've also got two very good firends who have just gone to work over in Italy so it allows me to keep in touch with them as well. This account unlike the last one only has, and will have, people that I actually know personally or see on a regular basis, as friends - so far there are 7 of them! Nobody else can find me because the account has been set up in my dog's name.