---
title: "The Long Goodbye (to Facebook)"
description: "Deleting Facebook was the best decision of my year. It was making me live life through the eyes of others."
date: "2018-09-12T00:00:00.000Z"
canonical: "https://www.antonsten.com/articles/the-long-goodbye-to-facebook/"
---

> I took a Facebook vacation about a year ago. It became a long break. And now it is a permanent vacation. Why? Because I don't need it and don't miss it. I left, not because of the company's dodgy approach to privacy, data accumulation or its continued denial of its impact on shaping modern society. I left because it was making me someone I am not — someone who lives life through the eyes of others. There is a hard edge in Facebook life. People are always fronting — putting their best life forward. Just like startup life these days.
>
> — [The Long Goodbye (To Facebook)](https://om.co/2018/09/01/the-long-goodbye-to-facebook/)

No single decision I've made in the last year has had a more positive effect on my life than [deleting my Facebook account](https://www.antonsten.com/byefacebook/). I'm down to checking in on Instagram every 2 or 3 days and I think before the end of the year I will have deleted the app from my phone (I've already moved it off my home screen).