First, it became increasingly difficult for me to share my world and world view with EVERYONE on my list of friends. Some of whom I had either not met , or else I had not seen them in many years and/or were never particularly close to begin with.
Second, it began to resemble a true
obsession for yours truly, scanning the pages of people regularly. Looking for exactly what, who knows?
I noticed that so much constant
information was beginning to grate on my nerves, whether it was positive, negative,
or nebulous.
Third, I felt like I was
giving up too much of my time and energy in that unreal world. And I have always been an excellent escapist,
so it served my dysfunction quite well.
Now that I am living in Hawaii, not working full-time or raising my
children, I want very much to re-find the things I rarely had the time for over the last
three decades. I’m pretty sure that I
wasn’t going to accomplish that by hanging around on Facebook. Because it's pretty much impossible to be here now when you're never actually HERE.
Now, if I can just remember how to blog...
2 comments:
I am finding that I am enjoying Facebook much less as well. Too much going on all at once, and most of it not particularly interesting. As a fellow escapist, I could spend hours staring at the screen and letting time and days go by. I have never been good at self-discipline, so staying away from facebook presents some challenges. I wish you the very best in your new free world. I am so glad you are blogging!
With me, Facebook is for family matters,mostly: pictures of the grandkids and so on. I have kept my Facebook friends few in number and don't spend much time on it. My blog is another matter, and I take it pretty seriously, but even there I usually don't post on weekends unless there is something I really want to write about.
And I use Twitter for my news feed.
My motto is: Use it but don't let it
use you!
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