I deactivated my less than a week old facebook account.

Why? Wasting too much of my time. No. I didn't like it that is why. (more later)

Stephen Collins over at AcidLabs makes a good point of media outlets (here in Australia at least) preferring to do negative stories on all things Web 2.0 and social computing.

I suspect there is a lot of this around and as I asked via a comment on Stephen's blog, "When are we going to hear a report on the cost of Golf to business and industry?"

So why did I ditch Facebook?

Well I Twitter a fair bit and use it to keep in touch with friends and with what is happening with Adobe RIA, Flex and AIR folks.

With the use of Tweetr as a desktop Twitter client I can now send files/photos to my friends as well as all the regular Twitter features.

The immediacy of using Twitter on the desktop is really what killed my Facebook experiment. Especially for messaging.

I would perhaps be interested in a Facebook desktop client. A 30 second Google search uncovers very little. It would also have to be able to run on my MacBook and if it was in AIR I'd install it straight away.