Please don't take this personally, but I'm ignoring you. Not in real life. Feel free to call or send me a message. However, there is a very good chance I'm ignoring you on Facebook. Don't worry, I didn't go out of my way to intentionally hide you or block you. The past week, I've been ignoring my entire newsfeed. Instead of scrolling down, I'll usually see the top entry before moving over to "Close Friends" or checking out some of the groups I enjoy. But the feed has been ignored and there are many updates I haven't seen.
Over the past few weeks Facebook has been more aggravating than entertaining. Between the deaths of famous actors filling up my feed and ice bucket clutter, I wasn't enjoying my time on Facebook. Constantly reading the same thing from different people was gratuitous and annoying. Previously, Facebook was fun. Suddenly I was getting pissed off at a website. The best thing for me to do was step away.
Of course I'm a tremendous hypocrite and kept posting to my page, but I've come to value Facebook as a kind of online diary. So I've been updating it occasionally with things I'm doing or articles that are of interest to me and maybe my friends. But if something important happened to you, I'm sorry if I didn't see it. And if a famous person died, don't worry, I have other sources for news.
I was a little curious what happened to you. I remember when you live streamed your wedding on Facebook(!). 10 years after you wrote this post, social media is probably even more annoying than it was back then. i really hate all the suggested pages in the feed and all the short form videos - they don't make it easy to actually see what your friends have been up to - or maybe people just post less. Nevertheless, I enjoyed interacting with you years ago and I think it's super cool that you were able to turn one of your hobbies/passions into such a lengthy period of employment.
ReplyDeleteHi TJ! I'm not ignoring you! In fact, I saw the Phillies play in three Angels games last month and I remembered you were a fan! I hope you're well! :)
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