Declaration of Independence from Facebook

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM FACEBOOK

Let me begin this manifesto of liberation with a fairy tale.
Recently Mark Zuckerburg sent a team of engineers out from their Silicon Valley warrens with a compass and a task: to verify that the sun sets in the west. They enjoyed a beautiful sunset and noted the reading on their compass and affirmed to their boss that yes, indeed the sun may be observed to set in the west.
Recent revelations that Facebook  technicians performed "research" to determine if people are affected by the emotional content of what comes through on one's TL  are equally specious and fanciful. Just as everybody knows that the sun sets in the west, we understand that emotions are contagious. Anger and fear and mass hysteria, joy and love and the entire gamut of emotional response to the world around us are all contagious.
One doesn't need experimental research to learn such basic facts.
I have concluded that such "research" was performed for the simple pleasure of having guinea pigs (you and I) to force to run through mazes and jump through hoops. 
I am here to tell you right now, Mr. Zuckerburg, that I am NOT A GUINEA PIG to be experimented upon. Neither are my friends or family or people  in far-off lands that I will never meet.
Therefore on July 4th 2014 I declare Independence from Facebook.
Whereas Mark Zuckerburg takes every bit of information and personal data posted on his Facebook (including private messages) and processes it and milks it for the maximum profit and financial gain...
Whereas Mark Zuckerburg and his merry band of minions sees me and potentially everybody on earth as a toy to be played with and as an eyeball to be sold to the highest bidder...
Whereas Mark Zuckerburg has a history of nonchalant unconcern with the privacy and emotional integrity of people around him...
Whereas Facebook is a place where I have personally experienced and seen in others inevitable interpersonal conflict, addictive behaviors and social media drama...
I hereby state my intention to delete my personal account as of midnight 7/7/14