I've began preparing my exit by sending an explanatory note to everybody, plus a direct message with my phone number, blog address, Y!M ID and so on...
It looks like I am going to commit suicide, or leave the planet or something, I even end up feeling guilty at some point. Come on, you can do it!

Here is what happened in details:

The Facebook Tagging function is terrible.

May you've seen me complaining about it on Twitter. Here is the deal:

- Write a note
- Tag as many people as you can in the note
- Reach the tag limitation
- Remove people
- Try adding people again...

Voila. The people you have untagged are still receiving the notification, and you can't add anybody anymore. Very, very practical.

I thought I could use it to tell my friends about important things

But Facebook probably thinks that you can't have more than 20 real friends, thus a 20 tag limit on direct messages.
I know, it's made to limit spam. But the one time I had something really important to say turned into a mind numbing chore.

Several Y!M contacts added

Well, that was to be expected.

People don't seem to care much

Apart from a few people, most of whom I used to communicate with off-facebook, and in spite of the personal message AND the note, not many reactions here.
Either they are too busy (though farmville still works for them), either they don't really care. Shall I feel sad?
Well 6 more days to go, so I shouldn't worry much.

But some are very sad

Some of my friends are reacting as if I were leaving the country. Which is funny since I didn't interact with them on facebook much.
I am not ending my days, be assured.

I've been more or less subtly called "silly" by a random stranger.

More here: http://bit.ly/a79KrV .
In the original Mashable thread, I think the dude also calls me pretentious. Ah. Maybe.

More tomorrow!

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