Fuck Facebook, Again

My Facebook timeline now has one post from friend and the rest from ads or the people I don’t give a fuck about. The algorithm is getting worst. I have been refrained myself from posting on Facebook as well. I posted videos and photos during the ski season. It felt like showing off. People don’t read long posts on Facebook; therefore, I just focus on posting on my own blog here. This is still a quiet space for me to write. No ads. No other people contents. Just my own thoughts.

I haven’t deactivated Facebook yet because I am still using Marketplace to sell things. I noticed that when I deactivated Facebook, I lost some friends. I don’t if if they unfriended me when I deactivated my account or Facebook does it automatically. In any rate, I just keep my account, but stop posting. I glad I got rid of Twitter many years ago. I haven’t missed it. I lost my Twitter account.

LinkedIn still seems to be relevant. I only posted work and design promotions. I might just keep doing that and not checking in the timeline. I might just do that for Facebook as well. I am growing tired of social media, but not my blog. I must confessed. Facebook has been pulling my attention away from reading. I keep on scrolling instead of reading and that has to change. I need to get back to reading more, not less.

I get a headache and loads of regrets after scrolling through Facebook. All that time should have been used to read a handful of pages instead. I have been listening to long essays in the New Yorker app while doing chores like folding clothes, washing the dishes, or tuning skis and snowboards. I have the entire basement to tidy up. It has become unbelievable disorganized. There are so many things that I want to give or throw away. I just need to plow through them.

As we are moving off spring and into summer, I have tons of shit to do around the house. I need to devote more time on those tasks. I will take time away from going to the skatepark even though I still want to rollerblade and skateboard. I will also stop going to pickleball—more on this in another post. I want my sons to help me cleaning up the house, but they rather spend time on their computers instead. After asking them, telling them, and yelling at them many times without they actually wanting to do anything else other than spending time on their digital devices, I just give up. I just let them do what they want to do. I am tired of repeating myself.