Bah! Facebook

I've finally deleted my Facebook accounts. I had not used it much; an application that seems to be able to access some of my local information, that claims to give me freedom to communicate and express myself but in fact gives me NO chance to customise my "homepage" - that is difficult to use to actually communicate with people, which is its primary stated goal - large PHAIL in blinking lights.
I did get a large increase in spam from it, worse than I ever got from joining Yahoo Groups, which was admittedly pretty bad, but is worth it for the content.
Possibly because I didn't do it often, I found it difficult to actually SEND messages to people - I could write on their "wall" and it would be seen by anyone. Sending a message which would be seen only by them seemd next to impossible. So I made sure people I cared about had my real email, phone etc - old tech rules! and didn't use it.
I also contracted a very unpleasant trojan this spring which appeared to come from one of those many emails (and yes, I know - I NEVER open attachments to emails whoever they claim to be from). I had to reformat my whole machine because of that thing.
It was odd, too, WHO exactly wanted to add me to their friends list... I think four genuine friends (yes I know that's sad) and maybe five distant but genuine family members. And then literally SCORES of people who wanted to add me, that I had never heard of. WHY?
The Facebook apps worried me. Seemed to be a way to compromise my system, install stuff without any of the usual protection.
Writing - anything you write and publish on there becomes Facebook's property. As a writer, I want to keep MY material to MYSELF!
So I've used it very little over the years...
Interesting point: I DID have an alternate account, in a second name, which I kept completely separate. This was a fictional name, a name I used to use in a roleplaying game. Oddly, I had surprisingly many "people" asking this fictional character to befriend them, claiming to be a long-lost friend or frequently a member of my non-existent family. Including, of all people, one Barak Obama....
That capped it for me. At that point I deactivated my account.
Now with the latest round of scare stories about Facebook, I have had enough. I have deleted my account/s. If you want to do so too, read this http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account then log in to Facebook and then follow this link.