Feeling Trapped

Lately I’ve been feeling a little trapped as of late, not in the I’m chained up in a dark damp room some place, but in a social sense online.  I’ve been giving serious consideration into leaving Facebook (http://bllgvn.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/good-by-facebook/), however, I don’t want to commit social suicide and at the same time stick to my own drive and aversions that seem to keep coming up on this service and I’m at a point where I can’t take it any more.  Another service that makes me feel trapped is Live Messenger.  I don’t understand how this service is still used by so many, I personally don’t like it and frankly the software is bloated peace of garbage and I don’t use it, but why do I still have to use the service with my friends?  Am I that far ahead of the curve that I’m moving into the new world and then stuck waiting for everybody else to catch up?  I know I went through this with Twitter, I waited a year and a half or more for it to become useful to me.  Can I move to what I think is the future of online computing and communication? or am I stuck in the mud spinning my wheels, or worse yet some place in the middle?  I want to quit Facebook, my msn dilemma is really quite trivial, but there are so many people on there that I don’t want to loose contact with, where is the big Facebook killer? LiveJournal had MySpace, MySpace had Facebook, what does Facebook have? I’m trying orkut and LinkedIn but nobody is moving with me.  I guess I just want to live on the web and not Facebook.