I’m continually pressured by my friends as they try to get me to join Facebook. And every time they ask me, I tell them no.

I really have zero interest in that trendy social networking crap. (I used to be a member of MySpace many years ago, but wisely got the hell out of there right as it was turning into a massive cesspool of human depravity.) I don’t want to reconnect with people I went to high school or college with; as I’ve made clear in the past, I didn’t have many friends back then, and the ones I did have mostly turned out to be false ones. Those weren’t pleasant times in my life; why the hell would I want to bring all that shit back up again?

In the increasingly digital world we live in, I’m already a member of various websites, forums, and so on. Adding one of Facebook’s magnitude into the mix would be the straw that broke the camel’s back, since there’s an absolute deluge of shit waiting for you every time you sign in. (I’ve watched my girlfriend prune copious amounts of garbage out of her Facebook inbox every time she logs in.)

I don’t care how popular Facebook is. I’m just not interested. I’m trying to live more “in the now,” and not focus on times past. Facebook and its ilk are just a giant step backwards.