This could be goodbye.
I’ve been plagued with a series of conversations that begin with, ‘Didn’t you see my post on Facebook?’ I didn’t see the post and normally don’t because I don’t look at Facebook practically at all anymore. There is a certain level of responsibility that the Facebook brings that I don’t want. On some level you’re supposed to be checking out your friends lives through the medium. On a separate level people follow your face page and make judgements about who you are based largely on what you post and what people post on your page.
I remain aware of none of it. I thought about going to my page and seeing what is written there, but why go down that rabbit hole. Yeah, I recognize that this blog propagates there, and removing Facebook removes the opportunity for many to see the blog, but the question of the page remains: What does it say about me and what responsibility do I have to do more than what I’m already doing on Facebook–which is nothing.
As I move forward with my life and consider the changes I need to make to be a better me, I have to think hard on the ties I cut and the responsibilities I shed. I want to trim the fat both literally and figuratively on the things in life that really don’t matter or contribute in a valuable way. Maybe I start with Facebook. Maybe I figure out that social media on the whole is a time suck that makes one accountable for information that they’d rather not be accountable for…
Maybe that is ten minutes.