So my Facebook account from high school got broken into today. I guess someone stole a password from some Heartbleed-vulnerable server or something. I dunno. I logged back in, changed the password, and shut down the account.

It got me thinking about why I left, and why I continue to stay away.

In college, I was pretty heavily involved in the free software philosophy, and I couldn't really reconcile my interest in keeping software free with using non-free software - even if it was "trivially free" in that the only person running the software had rights to it. So I left, and was stubborn with my friends, and didn't come back.

Now, I guess the cognitive dissonance is slightly less - I see that it would serve a useful purpose (getting back in touch with friends, and getting in touch with new friends too), plus I am slightly less wary of non-free software than I used to be. I think there is a harsh reality, where sometimes there is no good free software for the job, and sometimes we must augment our use of free software with non-free software to accomplish something we want.

So I guess my question for you pumpers is: What should I do? Am I crazy? Do you have a reason to not use Facebook that I'm missing? Do you think I'm making a strange kind of sense and that maybe I should reactivate the account again? I'm so confused.