No more Facebook for me. Seriously, all done.<\/p>\n
The last time I said this was in response to Facebook\u2019s annoying habit of changing and resetting privacy options- every time they tweaked something they would automatically reset my privacy options to the default (read that as \u201cwide open\u201d). I got over that after about a week and reactivated my account, mostly because it was the easiest way to keep up with the antics of my grandchildren.<\/p>\n
This time, no it is not about the NSA, it\u2019s simply that I took a look at my timeline and realized more than 60% of my posts were political. This surprised me because I at least claim to hate getting all this political crap on Facebook, yet here I was, a prime offender. When I realized that and accepted it I just went over my Facebook experience these past few months and came to understand that more often than not checking Facebook served to piss me off.<\/p>\n
Seriously? I don\u2019t need anything extra to piss me off. I realized that I was getting into political arguments with my neighbors that I NEVER would engage in face-to-face, and not the GOOD kind of arguments- these were tit-for-tat exchanges between me as a right-of-center with some libertarian leanings type of guy and people whose ideologies ran from left-of-center to so far left I had to look right to see them.<\/p>\n
Nothing good would ever come of this and a value my friendship with these people too much to let something as ridiculous as Facebook become a problem. My wife will keep her account and I\u2019ll keep up with the kids and grand-kids through her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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