The Raven's Roost

 Last night I had a text convo with my sister, and among other things she was saying she wanted to ditch Facebook. I haven't logged in for a long time so I don't know how often she or my Mom post, and as I've said here they are the only reason I still maintain the awful thing. Anyway after dinner Fox found a helpful how-to and read the steps to me and I deleted my Facebook. No, they don't make it easy, and yes they ask you a million times if you're sure. It also "can" take thirty days to do. Whatever, BYE FACEBOOK.

Apparently though it helpfully told all my friends I did this! I swear this is like when you used to try to leave a Neopet at the pound. I've been fed up with FB's shit for a long time. I was sick of the stupid memes people repost without thinking, the political wildfires that generate plenty of heat but no light, the barely concealed attempts to keep your attention ON FB constantly. You could log on and see one moronic thing that someone shared that was belittling and bigoted and it would just put a damper on your whole day. So yeah, fuck FB.

I'm also still sort of bitter about how many friends it took away from better platforms. People whose long-form blogging was really great. And in one case that person even died, and I missed out on almost an entire year of friendship with them simply because they were on FB playing Farmville. So again, fuck FB.

Aren't I afraid of missing out on something? What about the private FB groups I'm in? You mean the ones I rarely check in to and haven't posted in for over a year? I'm sure they'll take care of themselves. I am so over the whole experience that I don't have a single, solitary fuck to give anymore. There is literally and entire planet out there - I care a lot more about that.

I know some people are going to want to get in touch, so if you don't already have my email, drop a comment. You can use that to find me on stuff like Google Hangouts, though I'm not always available. I also keep weird hours - I get up pretty early in the morning and go to bed with the chickens Ravens.