I'm in the same boat as you. I deactivated my FB account roughly 2 months ago and deleted the app from my phone.
I feel a lot happier. I'm not constantly and pointlessly checking FB. I still hang out with friends, I communicate with them via SMS, phone, email, IRC, Twitter, and so on. If someone really wants to contact you, they'll find a way.
I've started to use Twitter more, it satisfies my needs. To improve the experience, I put most organization accounts in a private list and unfollowed them. I also unfollowed a bunch of people I didn't personally know. I don't want my Twitter feed to be a constant stream of advertisements and junk posts (like how my FB feed was). I'm slowly trying to reduce the number of people I'm following to 150 or less.
I did log into FB once since I deactivated my account, and that was to remove a lot of information such as likes, groups, "friends", etc.
I feel a lot happier. I'm not constantly and pointlessly checking FB. I still hang out with friends, I communicate with them via SMS, phone, email, IRC, Twitter, and so on. If someone really wants to contact you, they'll find a way.
I've started to use Twitter more, it satisfies my needs. To improve the experience, I put most organization accounts in a private list and unfollowed them. I also unfollowed a bunch of people I didn't personally know. I don't want my Twitter feed to be a constant stream of advertisements and junk posts (like how my FB feed was). I'm slowly trying to reduce the number of people I'm following to 150 or less.
I did log into FB once since I deactivated my account, and that was to remove a lot of information such as likes, groups, "friends", etc.