I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook. I scanned my friends’ updates. I posted status updates of my own. I browsed the fan pages I followed. I was a pretty happy Facebook user.

Then I found myself spending less and less time there and more time on Twitter and reading blogs. Why? Because I was finding the content on Facebook less engaging. I was seeing better articles and funnier stuff going by in my Twitter stream. I’m subscribed to some very good blogs, and my time spent reading them seemed better spent.

I also found it cumbersome to share content on Facebook. Adding a link and going through the captcha screen to approve the link took more time than creating a tweet, or so it seemed to me. And until recently, Facebook didn’t have a retweet function.

But I thought it was just me. Then I started reading and hearing about other people having similar thoughts. At a networking event last week, a new contact mentioned he only updates Facebook once a week, if that. Like me, he used to do it daily.

I’ve been following @AriHerzog for a while now, and he’s done a series of articles about his dissatisfaction with Twitter. The link is to the first article in his series, and I think they’re all worth a read.

So what do you think? Are you still loving Facebook? Or are you also using it less?

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