Allan Cole’s Blog.

Ashley over at Upstart Blogger delivers this brilliant article about why you (and I) should delete your Facebook account.

…Delete your Facebook account now and stop generating page views and advertising revenues for someone else.

…The only way to really stand out on Facebook is to have nothing to do with it…

Read the full article here.

I couldn’t agree with him more but I don’t know if I have the guts to delete my acount just yet.

Ever since Facebook opened itself up to the public and introduced Apps I have noticed an unsurprising demise in how I interact with my friends on the site. Before Apps and public Facebook I used to have Facebook open ALL DAY looking at Photos, making Wall Posts, responding to Inbox messages, changing my Status — Everything. It used to be important to make my presence known on the site and finding subtle ways to do it. Before, I had the comfort of knowing people that I actually keep in touch with were the main people who would see my information.

Now things are completely weird and awkward on Facebook. I find myself spending more time hiding from people on Facebook than I do socializing with them. And its not so much that I’m trying to avoid people I no longer talk to. It’s more so about limiting what people I DON’T know can know about me. I don’t want the Art Director from my last freelance project seeing where I went for vacation last year and How I got way too drunk at that House party (This really almost happened by the way). Facebook has tons of privacy settings that limit what people can know about you, but you also have to spend TONS of time trying to figure out what settings do what.

Also, Apps are extremely ANNOYING. To this day I don’t understand why I have so many friends with pages loaded with complete CRAP…Here’s a list of 10 ridiculous Facebook Apps. I don’t know what any of these Apps do, but the names alone are enough reason to hate them.

1. Will You Kiss Me? Facebook App
2. Free Condoms Facebook App
3. Whats your grade in the bedroom? Facebook App
4. How Gangsta Are You? Facebook App
5. What Drug Are You? Facebook App
6. My Sexy Costume Facebook App
7. Puff Puff Pass Facebook App
8. Have Sex! Facebook App
9. Booze Mail Facebook App
10. Lick My Frog Facebook App

(All of these are actual Facebook Apps. Im not making these up. In fact everyone of them came from 1 person’s profile.)

Ashley believes the blogosphere is where all of us Facebook haters should go, which would be great for business. Not sure everyone will be into the technical stuff of blogs, but setting up blogs on Blogspot (which comes with Gmail automatically) or WordPress.com is free and easy as pie. Guess we’ll see what happens over the next couple of years.