Day 9. I’m flying back from a trip where I stayed true to the social media abstinence. I can admit that there were definitely times when I wanted to post something quick about what I was up to on Twitter. I will for sure be back on Twitter this Friday.

There were also times where I found an actual use for the Foursquare app that I was previously sure I was finished with. Many times on the trip it would have been helpful to open up the app and figure out what restaurants were around and what people thought about them. I had no desire at all to “check in” anywhere though. Looks like the social media side of foursquare is dead for me and other apps that have location based searches will probably replace it. Hello Urbanspoon and Yelp. It will be interesting to see where all of this location based stuff goes though. So while I won’t be checking in anywhere, I’ll probably still hold on to the app for a while to see first-hand where things are going.

Facebook. I’m pretty sure I’m going to keep my account open. I plan to lock down the permissions and keep a very limited amount of info available about me. -Just enough for old friends to look me up and contact me if they want to. My almost-completely-decided-upon decision is based on a couple of things: curiosity of where Facebook will end up with all the wild stuff they’re doing with user-data, advertisers and the coming emergence of internet based currency, and (I have to admit this part) since everyone else is on Facebook, I will be too. The easy ability to connect with old friends and extended family is just too easy.

This has been an interesting experiment so far.