To Blog or to Facebook

I quit blogging because it seemed like the entire world quit reading blogs and only wanted to Twitter or Facebook. I myself turned to the dark side and started a Facebook page. At first I didn’t realize my privacy settings weren’t restrictive enough, and later I adjusted them accordingly. But then Facebook made some adjustments to itself and my privacy settings went back to the extremely unprivate “Everyone” default setting without my knowledge. Shit on all that.

I found myself wasting too much time with it every morning. I read as a friend who’s a very indiscreet Facebook addict ran her husband into the ground to all her FB friends and subsequently burned down her marriage. This is the same person who posted a bunch of pictures of me at parties at her house during the 90s, pictures in which I had a beer in my hand (and a goofy look on my face) and which a prospective employer was able to view during my interview process.

Recently I got my ass chewed out over a misunderstanding related to an article I posted which I found funny, but which offended a family  member. Did I need any of this shit?

Do I really need to be able to contact people I went to elementary school with who I haven’t seen in decades? Hell no. Blogging is lonely but it is a better distraction from meditation than Facebook is.