Moving away from Facebook

I just spent a little bit of time doing what I was starting to feel like was the only reason why I even went back to the Facbook website: blocking applications that people I was connected with were using because I just don't have an interest in what Facebook game, Facebook quiz or Facebook 3rd-party-app feature most people use beyond the small set I use myself, for my own purposes.
After blocking the eighth facebook app, I started to get a little angry. At least two of these apps I thought I had blocked before. Either there is yet another app on facebook with this or that name, or an app I already blocked has spawned another app to get around the fact that people block it. I really don't care. I'm tired of it. I really only want to see status updates from people that are actually put onto facebook by a person deciding there is something they want to add to facebook, not an automatically generated posting made by a game teasing me with information that I can't get to, because I don't use the app.
I'm sorry; I'm not going to add an app just to see 1 more line of text, and let yet another group mine my information without any value to me.
Tonight, I deactivated (not destroyed, I realize that) my Facebook account.
I had started out with wanting to just gut the experience by turning off platform. But it seems that even turning off my ability to use every single app on Facebook, I still had to deal with those same apps posting non-content updates to the feed I saw.
What, may I ask, is the point? Not being able to globally opt-out of applications, all of them, is just not a real option.
So, I'm taking another Facebook vacation. And I expect that at some point I will be going back to Facebook, if for no other reason than to gut the account and leave it as a shell, or to do the real account kill.
My honest assessment? I think I've stuck around Facebook longer than I should have given the circumstances that I've killed accounts on other sites.
I don't mind the advertising. Someone needs to pay the bills, and I can ignore them.
I didn't mind the apps. I just didn't want other people's apps spewing into my feed. I tried really hard to make sure my activity didn't do that to other people as much as possible.
But I don't feel that I can sit here and deal with the amount of noise that FB encouraged people to generate, nor the developer community that just generated app after app that, while other people may love, I just didn't care about or have an interest in, yet there was no way to stop them from polluting my feed or stopping those apps from bothering me.
So, I'm taking the step of deactivating the account.
I have been using a service that has been backing up a number of web 2.0/social network accounts that I use. So, nothing is lost.
I won't be able to see any facebook pages anymore. And those contacts that only ever knew that I posted something at sysmango.com because of the push from ping.fm, they won't see this. But maybe someone will remember this site is here and see this, assuming anyone actually cares that someone fell off of facebook. And being that someone is me, I doubt most people will even notice.
I'm just not that interesting.