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Why I Deactivated My Facebook Account

Join; leave; join again; deactivate. What next? Go back?

Alan AJ
4 min readFeb 23, 2022

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Dark background with a sad coloured rounded rectangle containing the words: Deactivate Account. Are you sure? (Yes, sort of…)
Image created by the author, Autistic Widower.

Around 2012, when my wife was ill, I needed something to act as a distraction. So I published some music I’d written on sites like ReverbNation and SoundCloud. And I joined MySpace…

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Alan AJ

Random life stories, opinions, and a dry sense of humour. A 55-year-old former electronics engineer and programmer in England. Previously 'Autistic Widower'.