The Washington Post has a lengthy article about Katherine Losse, an early Facebook employee who grew disenchanted with the way social-media was reshaping our lives so quit and moved to the middle of nowhere. While her overall concerns are valid, if not unoriginal -- we're sharing too much private information without concern for where it's going, our connections are sometimes becoming less "satisfying" -- by the end of her journey you kinda realize she's a bit of a drama queen -- a drama queen with enough vested Facebook stock to be able to drop off the map, I might add -- and that if she had just taken a step backward, she'd be like 99 percent of us who use social media as a way of communicating, and as a complement to our friendships, but haven't let it overtake our lives. (Am I wrong here? That's how everyone I know feels about it.) Not surprisingly, the second she wrote her book, "The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network," she reactivated her Facebook account to start building her "brand." Yeah, exactly. Read HERE.
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Facebook, Shmacebook. I finally got so tired of how so many people talk about Facebook in person now ("OMG, did you see what [so-and-so] posted?!") that I finally just deactivated my account. It all became too much of the same boring crap, even from people I adore. Yet I'd go back throughout the day to see if I was missing anything. The non-stop feed makes people feel like they have to check in constantly, and that just adds stress to the day. And it's supposed to be "social", not stressful. I can't express strongly enough how much more peaceful I feel having cut the cord from Facebook. And I'm still friends in REALITY with the people that matter. I don't need a popularity gauge like Facebook, or a high number of comments or "Like"s to make me feel valid. What a relief! Reality is way more interesting than Facebook and all those "friendships."
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