User blog:Sinthorion/RIP Facebook

Now I joined the billions of "faceless" people on this world again.

What happened?
I had two Facebook accounts, both called "Pallando Rómestámo". That means I violated three points of the Terms of Use of Facebook: I had multiple accounts, I did not use my real name, and I represented a fictional character with my account.

The one account was my main account and I used my real name for it in the past, but changed it to prevent being publicly associated with my family members, something that has happened in the past.

The other account was created for roleplaying, something that many people on Facebook do. You can find every single LOTR character at least once used as names of Facebook profiles.

Nine days ago from now, Facebook warned my main account to be deleted when I couldn't provide a proof that I'm using my real name (a scan of an official document, for example an identity card) within 7 days. Two days ago, they blocked it. Even if I was using my real name, I would never give personal documents to Facebook. Some time later, they found my second account that I was using then in place of my main account and blocked it too.

To create a new account, you have to provide an email or a phone number. I can't create new accounts using my blocked emails and phone numbers. But now I don't want to have a new account. I don't want to sell my personal data to Facebook anymore. I will leave Facebook now forever*.

In all the time, Facebook was a useful tool that helped to stay in contact with friends, to find other people with similar interests, and to organise events. In addition to that, you could follow pages and always stay up to date with things that you are interested in. On the other side, it costed me a good amount of time by looking through (and participating in) all the nonsense on Facebook (you cannot resist the temptation of memes once you tasted them...).

 * Nothing is really forever

What does it mean for the future?
I can no longer stay in contact with Mevans and the mod team, something that I considered as my most important role for the wiki. But now that Glaerdir/MG joined, he can take that role.

I can no longer stay up to date with mod news from Facebook as easily, but since I'm playing this mod not much anymore anyway, that's fine for me.

I can no longer show the whole world what I like or what I was eating today. I will really miss that. (joke)

I will have more time for more important things than to scroll through memes and satire posts.