[glalonde]

>I'm quitting fb for real this time.

>Oh, and look at all these thousands devoted followers I'm walking away from

>I just don't want to always put up a front of my existence for others to see

>I don't want to live for how others perceive me.

>Better share this transcendental experience on my blog.

k.

[pq0ak2nnd]

I get your snark: social media is built on narcissistic borderline personalities. But it does make sense that someone with a huge following might want to redirect to his personal blog, where he has complete control. I left FB two years ago and I read the blogs of people I used to follow, well, those who keep blogs. I'd like to see a return to RSS and curate my own feeds, but I'm hopelessly nostalgic.

[skh]

I couldn't find one of the statements you quoted. Specifically,

Better share this transcendental experience on my blog.

is not in the post. Have you misquoted? Are you deliberately misquoting to prove a larger point?

I gather from your post that you think all of the quoted statements form a contradiction. I don't think it necessarily does and only time will tell if Mr. Malik will use his blog to "live for how others perceive" him. Only time will tell if Mr. Malik uses his blog to do this.

I think Facebook is very good at manipulating people and getting people to engage with it a certain way. These forces of manipulation may not be present for a person who has a personal blog.

I think his statement about the number of his followers is that in spite of this he feels an emptiness with the interaction. Maybe the ego boost is no longer there. I don't think the statement was made for egotistical reasons. I don't know Mr. Malik but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to him.

[esturk]

People often complain about being downvoted but your post actually adds nothing to the discussion. In fact, you just reframed everything Om said negatively.

[burnte]

What he's paraphrasing is "I have had a revelation about Facebook being bad, I'm better without it and you will be too. Rather than sharing this on Facebook where I'll reach hundreds of thousands of people that are using Facebook and might be helped, I'm sharing it on my blog where few will see it."