Fast Food For Thought

Again in the same day?!?

I just unplugged my self from the 'social network.' I am no longer a Facebook user and dammit, I FEEL LIBERATED!

No more one sentence misunderstandings, no more creepy ads geared toward me in the right column (face it, that was fucked up) and most of all NO MORE CENSORSHIP!

Did I get censored?

No, I did not. On two separate occasions, my friends art was deleted.
That is two too many.

I thought to my self 'why don't you make you profile private so only friends can see the art?' but they did!

This is an outright violation of everything I believe in.

Since I joined 'FB' two years ago, I spend more and more time on the damn thing like some kind of loser. i don't need it any more. You get sucked in to trivial arguments, inane banter and worst, of all I leave with the same feeling after I eat fast food: physically full but oddly empty.

As though I woke up in an icy bathtub in Venezuela with a kidney missing.

There are other reasons too. You are reading them. They are called words.
I cannot and will not try to express my self in a sound bite, or advertise my life like that ever again.

I prefer a long narrative over a small blurb.
We live in a world of thirty second commercials and thirty second opinions and I find it disgusting.

Our use of this language has been hijacked and I won't be one of the hijackers.

There was a certain anxiety that I would feel every time I would log on to the FB. I equate this with the first time flying, that second when I left Terra Firma.

Questions persisted:

Maybe it was that rush of feeling that logging in gave me?
Am I addicted to Facebook!?!?

Why am I using this thing so much?

Who the hell cares about the music I just purchased?

Why doesn't FB promote a blog, but only notes?

Was I accomplishing anything by giving out all of my information to this FB corporation?

Why are these ads eerily close to something I just purchased online?

FB began as a simpler was to connect with people than the Myspaces. I found navigation to be better and there were little distractions. Now the place looks like Times Square.

When I was deleting MY photos out of MY profile today I discovered there were ads next to each photo. They were ads for crap I wouldn't EVER want to be associated with. It's as though FB has so may sponsors throwing cash at them, they are going to use every inch of space to accommodate this useless crap.

I am not urging any of you to stop using FB here, I just want you to know why I left and the feeling of anxiety that was gone from me the second I hit 'delete.'

So, that's it. If you want to find me i'll be here almost every day blowing hot air and probably joining FB again in a week when I start missing everyone.

Just kidding...

...how about this: give me a call. Let's hang out like we used to. I haven't even seen your new place and you haven't seen mine!