Facebook is a tool, and is good for getting to know people you don't know well and reconnecting with old friends you'd never have spoken to again otherwise. It also lets you know events that are going on around town, without you having to ask or look it up yourself.
I do have a Facebook profile. However, it's not a crippling addiction for me. I don't really spend a lot of time thinking of updates or finding quotes to jam in my profile. I don't use Facebook instead of going out, and I really only focus on it for a half hour or so a day. If I commit "Facebook suicide", then I just really miss out on getting to know people and know what's going on around town. I have a completely different mindset regarding Facebook than the author, therefore I really won't gain much out of deleting my Facebook. I really can't think of something I'd gain from deleting my Facebook, because I don't really take my "virtual self" very seriously.
The author assumes that the use of Facebook is necessarily a bad thing, and that if we were not using Facebook, we'd be socializing with real people and enjoying the Spring air and not just sitting inside watching television or killing time in some other equally boring fashion. Like all things, such as drinking, bad foods, video games, and so forth, if you lack the self control to moderate your Facebook usage to the point where it damages your life, then you are better off deleting it. It's just a website, it completely depends on what kind of person you are and how you choose use it.
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