What to do?

 Facebook. I’ve been a user for over 10 years. It doesn’t seem to be the application I joined way back then. I joined to stay in touch with friends and family. They seem to post less and less now. I scrolled through my feed before starting this to see what was there. It turned out to be news articles, targeted advertisements and posts from friends about politics. What happened to telling me about your life? What you are doing? How your children and grandchildren are doing? How about your dog? I read the obituaries in the Galesburg Register Mail every day. I get my national news through my online subscription to the Washington Post. Yes, main stream media. I’m one of those guys who thinks your news source should do research, tell you the truth and admit when they get things wrong. Unfortunately too many, surprising me even some I know, are willing to post and believe conspiracy theories and half truths. You can fact check most stories in minutes. They are unwilling to do so. I’m left wondering two possibilities. They are either too lazy or too stupid. 

What’s the solution? Leave Facebook? I just haven’t been ready to pull the trigger on that yet. It’s like high school reunion. I went to one a long time ago and after wondered why I went. I hadn’t talked to the majority of those folks while I was in school and even fewer of them after graduation. Why go spend time in a huge room talking to people I wouldn’t recognize if the weren’t wearing a name tag. Facebook has gotten like that for me. I’m friends on there with folks I worked with, or went to school with or maybe never met but found interesting based on their posts. Stone Stairs of Death comes to mind in the last group. I don’t know his real name. Never met him. He is a sarcastic funny bastard. Would leaving Facebook and his sarcasm behind materially affect my life? I think not. So, someday soon I may disappear from Facebook. Before I go I will contact a few people and ask if they would stay in touch by email. I’m tired of Facebook’s bullshit and tracking. I should reduce my digital footprint. Maybe I’ll refer them here. If they want to know what I’m doing and thinking this is the place.