Facebook, You and I Had a Great Run!

Day 87 - I once worked with a colleague who never had much nice to say. You know the type, he could and did find fault with just about everything. One strength of this guy was his aptitude in picking up new languages. He once said he worked hard at becoming proficient in a particular one. He studied and learned the difficult idioms and everyday slang. After he'd attained a fairly good proficiency, he came to a realization. He said he discovered the people who speak it didn't have anything important or interesting to say.

At a risk of being like that fellow who went sour before his 'best-before' date, I have decided to spend a whole lot less time on Facebook. First, I was wasting more mental energy deleting ads and turning off annoying feeds than I was enjoying my sessions. Also, I started finding myself little interested in reading the links my friends posted. As a rule of thumb, the only time one should post a news link is if one's in it! More importantly, I have a whole lot of FB friends whose lives really don't matter to me at all. Yet, some of the friends with whom I would enjoy bountiful communication via the platform don't use it at all.

It is well past time for a change of behavior. So yesterday, I vowed I shall continue to check in, but will certainly spend just a fraction of the time I'd been wasting. This is coming from the guy who joined Facebook when a college or university affiliation was necessary to sign up. I joined in July of 2006. I regularly get reminders of what I said nine or ten years ago. I was passionate about trying to get others to sign up back in 2010.

It has been a very useful run. It is just there are more useful ways to use my hours, even though early retirement has provided me with a surplus. I've turned my attention to Twitter again where I can select the type of information I get to consume.