Could a step back from technology really be a couple of steps forward?

I deactivated my Facebook page! I know...no more FB...why....for how long...what will you do with all that time you used to spend on FB? I'm sure these are some of the questions that popped into your head. They're questions I'm asking myself actually. In all honesty, I've been thinking about doing this for a while (maybe since the beginning of the year). As my "friends" list began to grow, it occurred to me that I hadn't seen, talked to or even thought about many of the people that I was now letting into my world, my personal space. I was sharing the special occasions in my life, my thoughts, the growing up of my daughter...and I was doing all of this with "virtual" strangers. Don't get me wrong, on the flip side, I was able to see into people's lives and have "shared" experiences with them without actual interaction. Maybe I opened my world up to too many "friends". I probably would have been better served by keeping my circle small and intimate. The funny thing about that is I have less than 200 "friends", of whom I'm certain only a handful have even noticed that I no longer exist on FB, and that number IS small for a FB roster. With all of that going on in my head, it didn't help that I recently watched "The Social Network". It's the movie based on Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. Now, I'm not certain how much of the movie was fact versus Hollywood, but I was put off by Zuckerberg's character and the the way it all went down. I've had the discussion with some as to whether or not I am being oversensitive to the way he was handling business and how he was a genius who was just in his own head all the time and how the twins who sued him were the real jerks of the movie. I've even heard that Zuckerberg says he isn't really like his character in the movie. I get it... and I'm probably being ridiculous seeing as how I'd stop using a lot of goods and services if I saw a movie about they way they came to be. Nevertheless, I was feeling a certain way about this particular thing and ,just for now, took action. To reactivate my page is as simple as logging into my FB account with my email address and password. They make it very easy to return to my "friends". In the meantime, I have the phone numbers and addresses, both physical and virtual, for the "friends" I actually want to access and vice versa. I guess I'll have to spend more time reading or writing or playing with Grace or surfing the internet for other favorite pages to visit. I'll also have to find another way to distribute this post...as FB made it easy to publish for all my "friends" to read. Given all that, I still have to wonder if my step back from that piece of technology and social networking won't somehow be a couple of steps forward for ME in the long run. Only time will tell. So, until I return to FB, call me, email me or send me a letter...."friends". I'll miss you while I'm gone.