Thought of the day - Taking back control from Facebook

Yesterday, I reached my boiling point with Facebook.  While I enjoy the good things on FB such as recipes, animal groups, historic homes, etc., it seems like yesterday I could not get away from politics and other such things in my feed.  I don't know why the algorithm powers felt the need to fill my page up that way, but that's how it was.  And I got angry about it.  Very angry.  I wrote a small rant about it, which I have since deleted as I typically do with my angry FB posts.  I just couldn't take it anymore.  I thought about it long and hard throughout the night as I tried to sleep and I came to two conclusions about the whole thing.

One is that society overall has too many labels.  Everyone has to be one thing or another.  There can't be any gray areas where people can just be people.  If we, as a society, used more manners, dignity and class and less labels, things would be improved.  The other one is that I have let FB control me.  I am allowing it to shape my opinions of people.  I don't like that.  I do not want this non living entity...the internet...to be my source for how I feel about people.  And that is what is happening to me.  Somehow, I have become addicted to this shit...and I have a very addictive personality.  Very!  And yes, it is hard to face the facts that people I care about think certain things.  I have to learn to deal with that.  But I do not want that process to be because of or through FB.  Period.  When I truly think about it, we have placed so much importance on unfriending people that it is genuinely laughable....me included.  When it comes right down to it, who the f**k really cares about that?  It's kind of like being in high school cliques all over again.  I survived that once and don't care to revisit that at all.

So, I am taking some time off of FB just to clear my head of the whole thing and to take a long, hard look at how important social media is to me.  I am praying to God that I will realize that it truly does not make a difference in my life.  I might become left out in the cold about some things from social media, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.  Like any other addiction, I have to get control over it before it ruins me.  I can do this.  It will just take some time and effort.

That is all