Albeit a minor one, but taking a stand nonetheless.

I’ve waffled back and forth about this for years and finally decided to do what felt right. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Facebook for years. On the plus side, it’s pretty satisfying to post a happy event and get 60 “likes” from friends and acquaintances. On the downside, it’s run by Mark Zuckerberg. A guy who could is all-to happy to take payment in rubles from outside influences intent on wrecking this country. It doesn’t seem right to participate.

His excuse is not wanting his company to have to be the “arbiters of truth” and I get that. It’s a tough proposition. But maybe after he cashes his check for $5B we can have that discussion about first world pain and suffering. Give me a break.

Twitter isn’t much better. Jack Dorsey should have suspended Trump’s account years ago for violating Twitter policy. Finally, after years of using his power to send subtle hints to his “2A group” and lying through his teeth unchallenged, Twitter qualified one of his tweets with a pointer to some accurate information. But at least it’s not a total pansy.

It doesn’t help Zuckerberg’s case that he wines and dines with the Republican establishment. I have just lost all respect for the guy and no longer want to participate in his platform.

The truth is, probably 90% of the friends I had on Facebook won’t even notice. My bad for posting too much political activist content over the years. That content isn’t for everyone and I get that. People use the platform for vastly different reasons. It’s all good. No judgement. I’ll miss keeping up with what’s been going on in the lives of friends, neighbors and acquaintances for sure. In retrospect we probably didn’t need to post all of our meals on there. It’s possible to do TMI and I may have posted at annoying levels at times. Probably guilty. Oh well.

The other thing I got to thinking about is the time sink that social media can be. If not careful, it can be sort of addicting. I got to thinking about several people I know who either don’t have a Facebook account, or had one and gave it up. They are all doing fine. Maybe it would be a positive thing to model them? I dunno, those thoughts crossed my mind for sure. Live in the moment as they say. I’ll be spending a little more time on the blog. I can say what I want here and people can decide if they want to read opinion pieces or not.

Random thoughts. Not a big deal. Just life. Carry on.