Why Not leave Facebook?

For this blog post I've been kinda troubled on choosing a topic. But I've finally decided that I want to talk about about the possibility that I might close my Facebook account. Yes, I know, I've betrayed all the teenagers in the world.

Facebook is a social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg on 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since February, 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users. Although it started as a small social network created in Mark Zuckerberg's room in college, Facebook is now recognized worldwide as the most used social network. Unfortunately, because of recent events and thoughts I might close my Facebook account. First I've realized that Facebook isn't entirely necessary, at first I made my Facebook account to stay in touch with my friends from the States, but years have passed since then and now very rarely do I talk to them. Also It's just a huge distraction, that at times downgrades my performance in and out of class. Plus I've realized that Facebook is just a very big lie. I remember that when I first made my account I was told Facebook was a non-profit organization, and that making my account would be completely free. Now, one of those statements is a complete lie, and the other one is (I guess) a half lie. This is because Facebook is NOT a non-profit organization, in fact, its an organization that makes A LOT of profit, that's one of the reasons why Mark Zuckerberg is the world's youngest billionaire. Facebook makes profit by selling all your personal information to companies and by letting those companies have advertisements in the Facebook website. That leads to the reason why the second statement is basically a lie. Facebook tells its future users that creating an account is free, and although user don't pay Facebook to create their accounts, they do have to give Facebook complete ownership of all the information they upload to their profile. Those two statements trouble me because I don't feel comfortable with a multi-billion dollar corporation owning all my personal information and selling it to companies that just fill up my Email inbox with A LOT of junk mail. And last, but not least, a couple of moths ago Facebook changed its users profile view to Timeline. Part of the reason why I don't like timeline is because it makes it easier for other people to "stalk" my profile, and it also makes it harder and more uncomfortable for me to access my profile. Plus, not only do I not like Timeline, its NOT optional. Facebook is slowly forcing its users to change to Timeline, and I find this both wrong and annoying, because I don't think its cool that give a company all my personal information and in return I can't even have the option to have my own type of profile.

I've been a Facebook user for about three years now, and I have to admit that I've enjoyed it. It made it easy to stay in touch with my friends, it facilitated my means of communication with people outside of school, except for teacher, and I got a couple of laughs out of my friends status updates, but I've come to realize, its not really worth it anymore. To me Facebook used to be a cool, advertisement free, socializing space, but now its turned to a corporation that just makes keeping in touch with my friends an annoying struggle. In conclusion, when the day comes and Facebook forces to change my profile to Timeline, I will, and literately seconds after I do, I will shut down my account, and that will be the end of my Facebook account.