About Face?
I can't believe that I'm writing this, but I'm really, seriously, truly, honestly GETTING TIRED OF FACEBOOK. I avoided joining initially, as I was afraid that I would lose privacy, waste time, live in a state of vague paranoia and...well...FORGET HOW TO WRITE. My husband talked me into joining. I started out cautious, keeping my "friend list" to a minimum.
Sometime over the past few years, however, things changed. *I* changed. I began spending more and more time on the FB. I posted much silliness, some angst, and even fought about some politics from time to time. I fell down the ever slippery slope of rabid commenting and posting. I briefly had an opinion on everything. I made the Grave Error of noting exactly what I believed on a high school classmate's post. I forgot that, although we were numerically adults, I still didn't mesh in properly with the 'Popular Crowd' from Back in the Day. I was smugly smacked down by one of the Anointed, which stung more than I would have imagined. I was friended, unfriended, re-friended, liked, un-liked, raged against, dumped on...
I think that it finally started to get OLD.
Over the past few months, I have noticed a slow shift away from rabid posting. It still comes in phases, but I seem to be flowing in the other direction. Away from the FB. Away from the politics. Away from the fighting.
Back to here. To my solace, my quiet. My calm, my peace, my words. TO ME.
I don't think that I'll delete the FB, but I see a definite turn around. A casual step back. An "About Face", if you will.
Sometime over the past few years, however, things changed. *I* changed. I began spending more and more time on the FB. I posted much silliness, some angst, and even fought about some politics from time to time. I fell down the ever slippery slope of rabid commenting and posting. I briefly had an opinion on everything. I made the Grave Error of noting exactly what I believed on a high school classmate's post. I forgot that, although we were numerically adults, I still didn't mesh in properly with the 'Popular Crowd' from Back in the Day. I was smugly smacked down by one of the Anointed, which stung more than I would have imagined. I was friended, unfriended, re-friended, liked, un-liked, raged against, dumped on...
I think that it finally started to get OLD.
Over the past few months, I have noticed a slow shift away from rabid posting. It still comes in phases, but I seem to be flowing in the other direction. Away from the FB. Away from the politics. Away from the fighting.
Back to here. To my solace, my quiet. My calm, my peace, my words. TO ME.
I don't think that I'll delete the FB, but I see a definite turn around. A casual step back. An "About Face", if you will.
posted by rennratt at 6:47 PM
2 Comments:
I have a Facebook account. I even use it occasionally. But it lacks the depth I used to see when everyone was blogging. Hopefully we will see more of you here.
Yeah... I remember when you unfriended me on there over that big chocolate Easter Bunny debate. Hopefully we are all good again.
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