Ditching Facebook

With all the bull­shit, fake news, hate and mis­in­for­ma­tion flood­ing Face­book in recent years, I’ve increas­ing­ly shied away from my Face­book feed. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, being so per­va­sive, I found myself con­tin­u­al­ly forced back onto the plat­form for var­i­ous reasons —

• coor­di­nat­ing with fel­low uni stu­dents for group assign­ments (no more of that for me!);
• keep­ing up con­tact with par­tic­u­lar fam­i­ly and friend groups (which isn’t tru­ly “keep­ing up con­tact” if we’re com­plete­ly hon­est with our­selves); and
• help­ing gen­er­ate some inter­est in my var­i­ous char­i­ty endeav­ours over the years (which I’m fair­ly cer­tain I can do without).

I will miss the Groups I’m a part of, but could­n’t real­ly jus­ti­fy remain­ing on Face­book any longer just for Groups. So, I pulled the plug, down­loaded my profile/photos/etc, and turned off the pro­file. It’s been hard to stay away but I’m both suc­ceed­ing in doing so thus far as well as ben­e­fit­ting from hav­ing cut the cord. No more mis­ery and despair at Halal posts, COVID­iots, etc.

Just sweet, bliss­ful, Face­book-less silence…