Here is why today should be your last day on Facebook.
10. Culinary Artwork
“Just finished cooking and it looks delicious!”
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Is this an invite to partake?
No?
…Then why am I looking at it?!?
I cannot tolerate being forced to view my Facebook friends’ photos of home cooked food. Some days, browsing on Facebook is like being stuck at an awkward potluck lunch. On other days, I feel like I’m standing outside the club & I can’t get past the velvet rope. I don’t understand why would-be chefs insist on filling up my news feed with documentation of their dinner.
9. Photos of Fido
Only slightly less annoying are the ongoing photo streams of dogs. Yes, I understand that for some people, pets are replacements for children. No, I do not want to see them.
They say that no parent thinks that their own baby is ugly. This applies to pets as well.
8. Intense Emotion
Everyone has at least one over-the-top friend who posts on Facebook in lieu of attending a much-needed session with their therapist. Is it just me, or is it unsettling to constantly read status updates that declare:
“If this puppy yips at me again, I’m going to punt the damn chihuahua over the fence!!!”
Or
“Unbelievable!!! I loathe bad customer service!”
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And what about the people who “like” these statuses? What message are they trying to communicate?
“Yeah, it’d probably be a good idea if you just go ahead and kill yourself. And the dog.
Hint: Click through to your unstable friend’s profile and click that big ol’ Unfriend button.
7. Confrontational Political Posts
You shouldn’t discuss politics with friends. Or Facebook. Yet, we are constantly victimized by:
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*Exaggerated Eye Roll* I love clicking through these posts to read the articles. Right before I report them as spam.
6. Excessive Reposts of Internet Memes
In recent months, Facebook users have become so deluded that any picture with words on it is automatically funny. The bar for comedy has dropped so low, it’s embarrassing.
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Creepy little girl + burning building = funny?
I’m confused, and a little horrified.
5. Recycled Wisdom
The Facebook world has become so comatose that lazy people no longer type out quotes. These days, they post photographs of quotes that someone else created.
I hope you feel motivated.
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4. Pictures of Baby
Your New Mom friend won’t stop posting pictures of Baby.
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Baby’s first bath. Baby’s first tooth. Baby sleeping. Look at how cute, how adorable, so sweet. Mommy’s precious dearest little baby. What an angel. Daddy and Baby. Neighbor and Baby. The mailman and Baby. And worst of all, Baby in the Womb.
Disastrously, Facebook has replaced the family photo album.
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Save your friendship by installing Unbaby.me, which will remove babies from your newsfeed and replace them with stuff you actually want to see.
3. Everyone can see All of Your Pictures
If someone tags themselves in your photo, then all of *their* Facebook friends can see it.
Consider this: You upload a picture to Facebook. Your coworker friend tags herself in the picture. Facebook posts the picture on your friend’s profile. Your coworker friend happens to be Facebook friends with your boss. Now your boss is looking at a photo of you passed out in a stairwell from the night before you called in “sick” to work.
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Protect Yourself. Turn on “Tag Review” under Timeline and Tagging in your Privacy Settings, so that you will at least be aware when your posts are being shared.
2. TIMELINE
Most people agree: Facebook’s “force everyone to convert to Timeline in phases” campaign is not a good thing. Every day, millions of beloved Facebook profiles become casualties as they are hijacked by Timeline. Is there anyone out there who *does not* believe that this is the worst “improvement” yet?
Somebody please figure out how to undo Timeline.
1. It’s Impossible to Delete your Facebook Profile
Leaving Facebook is like quitting smoking. It is a tricky process that is not for the faint of heart. You must beat Facebook at its own game.
If you merely “deactivate” your Facebook account, you will still show up on your friends’ Friends Lists. In the event that you “reactivate” your account, your profile, friends, pictures, status updates, and everything else that you tried to forget will magically reappear. Just like nothing happened.
How to Escape: You can permanently delete your account here. Read the scary warning message and click “Delete My Account.” Do not log in for 14 days. Ignore that sexy 
button that taunts you on every webpage across the Internet. For 14 days, do not succumb to even one moment of weakness.
If you succeed, you will be ~free~. Good luck and Godspeed.
RAEZYN 
Awesome post Michelle,
This is so funny:)
Thanks
I went without facebook for 2 weeks and it was awesome! I ended up reactivating as it’s how I communicate with some family who live far away but I did end up going back and deleting lots of facebook friends, and lots of pictures, and I don’t spend as much time on there now.
And the thing about the baby pictures is funny, I wrote a whole post about how weird I think it is that there’s SO many pictures of people’s babies!
Awesome post 🙂
I actually found your baby post while I was conducting research for this post! Yeah, Facebook is annoying. I’ve had to do a lot of purging as well just to keep my sanity. Thanks for visiting 🙂
This is the most spot-on list of reasons to delete FB I’ve seen. I deteled mine mostly because I got tired of seeing memes, “wisodom” quotes, and political BS clogging up my feed. My friends were exceptionally horrible about this. The next biggest reason was the babies. I am 30; most of my friends are in my age group and alot of them are starting families. I think it’s great that they’re taking this big step in life, but they’re SO annoying about it on facebook. Their profile picture changes to their babie’s picture, and they spam the news feed with John Madden style play-by-play posts about their damn kids. There’s absolutely no discretion whatsoever.
P.S. The irony of the “like” button here is kind of funny 😉