Necessary Edit: If you find facebook useful and don't have a problem with it, that's fine, this post is for those who use facebook a lot, especially people from ages 21 or less and those new to the subreddit who feel like they need facebook in order to have a functional social life. The rest of the post is unchanged.

Facebook is killing your game

How often do you catch yourself mindlessly checking your facebook? Pointlessly swiping through other people's selfies and meaningless status updates for hours has become the national pastime it seems, and I think its no longer the place a modern redpill man should be. If you really are a grade 1 facebook addict, you might find this suggestion ridiculous, what about all my photos and how will I talk to my friends? Well, think about what purpose it actually serves you. Are you checking what your friends are saying constantly because you feel insecure? Are you posting youtube links all the time because you want to feel accepted? Is your self-esteem and social self worth directly proportional to the number of likes you get on a post, even if you refuse to admit it, even to yourself?

Facebook, like all the other social networks, has become a place where people post meaningless shit to assess their social standing or to get an ego boost. Posting an ACTUAL status update such as "at a coffee shop" will earn you nothing more than comments like "nobody cares" or 1000 likes if you're an attractive girl and took a photo of your skinny pumpkin latte with a flash of 'accidental' sideboob. Do you really want to be part of this enormous social circlejerk? Not convinced? Well, here's five reasons I came up with in the shower as to why TRP guys really don't need and are affected negatively by nurturing a facebook account.

1. It's a giant fucking waste of time

Facebook has to be the number one method for procrastination in the western world today. In a society where for some reason a cherry-picked online charicature of yourself seems more important than actual self improvement, people spend hours and hours traipsing through mind numbing status updates, bullying people for fun and playing Candy Crush Saga. It's a fucking free time black hole. "I'll just check facebook before I do X" can easily turn into an hour long talk about nothing with someone who means nothing to you, and it stops you getting important shit done like going to the gym or starting that report or going out and meeting people in real life. I don't know how many hours i've wasted on that site and, quite frankly, I don't want to because i'd be kicking myself over how much fitter, more confident or smarter I could've got in that time. You're wasting your life on that blue and white site and deleting it removes a huge cause of distraction.

2. People can go looking through all your shit

This has been done to death already, but its especially applicable here. Privacy is important, not only because you don't want everyone knowing your mother's maiden name so they can take your cash, but also because not putting all your cards face up on the table straight away is an important game principle. Any girl you like or meet can look you up and learn everything about you in about half an hour, and you bet your ass they do it too. Small talk becomes almost impossible, because when you're asked what school you go to or where you went on holiday last year, they're pretending they don't already know, and you know because they just liked that photo of you on the beach. People who share everything on the internet are really missing a trick because all of the mystery and intrigue dries up like a post wall vagina, not to mention Mark Zuckerberg selling your info to stupid app companies and giving it to the government for them to jerk off over.

3. It can make you feel like shit.

A lot of the new guys here who are swallowing the redpill have come from being insecure and unpopular, and that's fine, you want to change that and you came to the right place, but people on facebook are always clamouring for attention and that makes you guys the brunt of everyone's narcisstic rage. Slip up on a post, like the wrong photo, and you're facing social execution within minutes. Why should you deal with that? When I was younger, I saw facebook as a kind of game where if I posted the right things I would become incrementally more popular and if I posted something that my "friends" didn't like, I would get upset and be back to square one. Obviously this isn't a healthy use of the internet but I didn't feel like I had a choice or playing. Chances are facebook is tricking you into thinking you need it to be social but the whole time is making you feel worse on the whole. Just cut it out of your life, you don't need it.

4. You'll find out who your real friends are

Are you friends with people in college or work or whatever, but don't have their phone number or email address because you've "got them on facebook"? If you deleted your facebook, would these people text or phone you instead or just realise they only spoke to you because they were bored and the chat window is always open? Scrapping your online social networks will show you the people who really are your friends as they will continue to contact you and invite you to stuff via the prehistoric methods of SMS or maybe even the spoken word. You don't need the rest of them, they see you as nothing more than a puppet to fill the boredom in their pathetic lives.

5. You'll be forced to go outside

There's a lot of buzz on PUA forums and on here about "online game", which is essentially asking how to pick up girls without actually having to meet them face to face and doing the hard bit. There is no substitute for actually going up to real girls in the real world and practising your game on them. You'll decrease approach anxiety and without an hour to draft and redraft each message you'll come across as more confident, less robotic, and all in all more human. Without facebook, you'll be forced to go out more and actually interact with other human beings which will boost your confidence, increase your social skills and maybe you'll even get a tan. We're social creatures, and while blabbering to your friends on facebook might give you a quick and painless fix, you're damaging yourself and your game in the long run. Just get out there and sarge.

Summary

Facebook has done very well in convincing everybody in the world that their social life will be destroyed by not sharing every single thing you do with everyone else. The easiest way to make money is to take advantage of people's problems and promise them a quick fix and making sure they keep buying, and that's exactly what its done. If you want to carry on fueling the loser parade that is Facebook then be my guest, but it shows insecurity and neediness in you while further raising the egos of hotties and making them harder to lay. Ask yourself, do you really need it?

How to delete your facebook

Finally decided to stop riding the facebook gravy train? You might have deactivated you facebook before for exam periods or whatever, but this doesn't actually do anything apart from hide your profile. As soon as you log back in everything's back like it never went away. That's because it never did. Facebook and social parasites have a vested interest in you telling them all your secrets, so the official link for properly deleting your account isn't actually advertised anywhere on the website. Luckily, you can just click here. After 14 days, your account will be gone, and you won't be able to log in ever again. As for your data, that's anyone's guess, but at least they won't be getting any more of it.