Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the evolution that wasn't

It's over. I won. Last week I deactivated my Facebook, Myspace and Twitter accounts. I destroyed all traces. For 3 years this addiction to what amounts to a 'poor mans' reality TV that was fueling the Ego with leaded petrol, finally died of online emphysema. The Ego ran out of lungs, it looked at its friends network - all 457 of them - and said a polite goodbye.

Never is one more free than when they're lost in the wilderness without a map. I bet Chris McCandless said that. Although his physical self went the way of the Dodo, his spirit lives on and inspires and regenerates everyone whose soul he massages.

It wasn't about the advertisements, for one can choose to give it energy or not, it wasn't about privacy, for we are social beings; I deactivated because I lost interest in my people, I lost interest in my friends. I only have patience for growth not stagnation. Not much of a realisation I know, but a devastating awareness all the same.

A change has come and it will eat the good and the bad; thank God/Dawkins/Krishna/insert deity here for Evolver, a social network for the soul, not the ego. Vive la evolucion.