I cancelled my Facebook today. I’m gone. Not deleted yet. But gone.
Honestly I think it was friends and family posts about the sickening terror murder attacks in Israel that I just realized I couldn’t look anymore and then I thought about people looking at me and I just got overwhelmed
Philosophically I realized at my 40th high school reunion how strangely artificial my relationships with all those people over the last 20 years via Facebook were and just didn’t want it to be any more
We fill so much space with easy interactions
I wonder what these relationships would have been before Facebook
would I have made more of an effort, written letters or emails? Called them on the phone?
I did before and visited when in town
apathetic interaction with false positive reinforcement
lazy sharing in the form of posts – pictures, personal yet impersonal
I think this is different, all the world can see and I write as it is
as I used to on instagram – just pictures, only as personal as I would be in public, I’m going back to that too
EOF
Interesting that you made it through the 2016 election without leaving Facebook. Watched a lot of friends and family “break up” on FB over that one.
I gave up FB a while ago because it was an endless stream of liking everything someone I know had posted and wishing tons of people I don’t have a relationship with anymore, happy birthday.
I actually didn’t make it – that election and everything around it created so many casualties
I got back on as a few folks wanted access to our HS Reunion pictures
and Facebook Marketplace is useful for selling stuff we don’t need anymore
I have to use this site more often too.