I did it !!
I deleted my Facebook account.
Facebook is evil. I had a Facebook account. Therefore, I was evil.
But now I have a chance to regain grace. I must accept my failures. I must not dwell. I will move on.
I will not proselytize. You may be a Facebook user. I will treat you with compassion. You may become a Facebook user. I will try to accept.
I am still failing. I continue to be an Instagram user. I am weak but I will struggle. I will try to develop the calm patience and self-understanding needed to endure my wretched zuckedness.
Neither sheep nor ego shall I be. I shall be me.
But Seriously
I did it !!
It took over two years. I finally became sufficiently outraged two years ago to cut back on my daily, hourly Facebook check-ins. I first eliminated my Facebook relationship with all those close to me, those I had close contact with outside of Facebook. Then I began to eliminated those acquaintances that rarely interacted on Facebook. After a year, I began to eliminate those acquaintances I could barely remember (quite a few of those, it turns out). Finally, the hard ones to give up.
But the insight came: they weren't important to me because of Facebook. And my importance to them (or lack thereof) wasn't because of Facebook.
So I plunged. I just unfriended the remaining 50, deleted the account.
Now on to Instagram.
ps: Within 24 hours of deleting my FB account, some of those last FB Friends contacted me. "What Happened?" Thank you, it was very gratifying that you noticed.