One note on quitting Facebook. There seems to be three basic attitudes on quitting:

• It is a good, spiritually wholesome thing to do.
• It is too hard and you’ll never pull it off once you start discovering the social and technical (through Facebook Connect) repercussions.
• To quit is an extremely hipstery, “douchey” thing to do.

What does it mean to be a “douche”? (And I will never stop putting that term in a plastic bag of quote-marks, to prevent accidental skin contact.) I believe a “douche” is someone who enjoys a state of petty arrogance. *

I see no incompatibility between these three attitudes. It’s good to do, it’s hard to do and getting off does indicate some degree of arrogance, not necessarily exceeding the minimums to escape the category of “petty”. *

(* NOTE: the last two paragraphs are examples of “douchey”, as I understand it, and so is this note.)