At the end of today I will be shutting down my Facebook account. I just don’t feel that there is anything good that happens on here anymore. It is just an advertising and big-media platform.
I think back to a time when I didn’t have Facebook. Some people I would never have relationships with if it weren’t for Facebook, and I’m not unhappy I do, but sometimes running into someone randomly, but already knowing everything about them passively is just gross. It would be awesome to be able to have a full conversation instead of, “Yeah, I saw that on Facebook.” Some people will need to require more work on my part, and their part, to keep a relationship going. Other people are in my life everyday and I want a pure active nourishing relationship with.
Yes, the events function make getting huge people together a lot easier. I just hope that if you really want me to go to your event, you’d ask. If me not being on Facebook is too much work for you to invite me to your event, then your event will have a great time without me.
I have been on the fence about taking myself off Facebook for about a year now. There have been many reasons. I am addicted, it has become too political, it has made the world too small and too fast, on its board sits Peter Thiel who is a supporter and contributed to Donald J. Trump making money off of me, and this last bit of news about Russian Trolls using Facebook to win the presidential election for Russia.
I just can’t in good conscience keep logging on to Facebook to see what opinions you are wrong about or a hundred of you saying the exact same thing. It makes me think the people I know are a herd of sheep. I don’t want that perspective. I want your unique personality when you and I are talking.
I can’t feel good about myself partaking in an advertising & big media platform that is actually changing our society for the worst. The world does look like it’s spinning into oblivion when you are glued to a feed that tells you so. I’m not saying the world is great, but Facebook is a megaphone for humanities’ worse selves.
When a hundred of you post the same link about how terrible something is, it makes it a lot worse than if one of you posted it. I get it, people need to know. There is one thing that I know is people don’t want to know what they don’t know and want to just keep knowing what they already think they know. The link and opinion becomes void except by those who are assholes and argue for funsies and those that feel the same way you do.
If Facebook had the amount of positive impact on society, and it does have some worth there, I would be less inclined to log out, but it doesn’t. Because I like you and you post about antifa, I get ads focused at me about balaclavas from Land’s End. Your struggle now has monetary value for someone else.
I’m going to post this on my blog, https://www.davideverettfisher.com for if you want to read this after today. I’m also going to post my email address, so you can reach me if you don’t already know. dfisher13@gmail.com. I am going to log off tonight.
Hey, I might be back, but until I hear that the pros outweigh the cons, I’ll be on Twitter and Instagram @defisher.
I hope I don’t lose too many friends, but this is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Totally hear ya. I would fight for you, but I hardly ever see your posts anymore…So it will probably feel about the same. I will passively find my details about you from other sources. And it will still feel awkward when I see you because I will know these things.
Love ya always,
T
“We’ll meet again, don’t know where don’t know when, but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day.”
Is it possible to be totally in agreement with you, and sorta, kinda give fuck–e.g. by NOT following Cheeto Heads every burp or fart (most frequently, in my NSHO an ‘OhNO’ rather than a fart). Anyway, I have made a decision to not spend my retirement en toto, but have made a trust that comes into immediate effect when I croak (and have been thoughtful enough to pre-pay for a ‘natural burial’). anyway give a fuck, even if its’ infrequent, even if its’ small…a handshake to a newcomer–with no sex plot lurking in the recesses of one’s twisted soul. Or a sacrifice–’cause something BIG has arisen, something you give a fuck about, which ‘addressed’ might improve the quality of our lives or the world.