The year was 2008. The hottest thing was Facebook, which had just reached 100 million users. We were all at that age where Mafia Wars and Pet Society were games to be checked daily, if not every second.

Facebook would always lie open in the background and it was often people were called to attention by that weird undefinable ping that came with a conversation.

The status update bar didn’t creepily ask, “How you doin’?” and news feeds were filled with pointless drabbles, stolen witticisms, and paragraphs that made people question if they were suicide notes or song lyrics.

That was then. Now users can’t go on Facebook without being asked, “HAVE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR?!?!?!?!?”

Although Facebook has reached over a billion users, has it’s own movie, and can be used to modernize anything, just like the great Roman Empire it has begun to crumble.

Because of its predecessor MySpace, Facebook has been secretly suspected to fail since its inception.  But it has exceeded expectations by constantly evolving into some new freak of nature.

Although it has become like a superhero we all depend on, its constant costume revamps and many pointless gadgets makes us unsure of what to do with it.

Facebook today is a clusterfrick of apps, organizers, and now apparently a search engine. As users scroll through their dash, they are able to kill hundreds of people as well as proclaim their love for Satan, rapists, and terrorists by simply not clicking the ‘like’ button.

Users find that Facebook has become the obsolete ruler of the Internet, and that it has become so amped up on cyber steroids that it can no longer move.

Every day, more and more people are deleting their accounts for good, rather than just for attention. Because of the emergence of other useless sites like Tumblr and Reddit, people can now spend their procrastination time elsewhere.

But then, where will the patrons of the Internet go to have completely shallow and pointless conversations?

Lurkers have successfully switched to such venues as Skype, Google+, or obscure instant messengers. While Skype may crash computers, and Google+ is just like a watered down version of Facebook, they are both easy to download and relatively spam free.

The glory days of Facebook are over.  It was good while it lasted, but now we all need to move on.