The Anti-Social Network
Oxymoron, lol.
Been off FB for a month and a week now.
I’m still unsure of what triggered this shift in perception. Maybe it was me looking too deeply in the whole “be with people you want to be like” thing. I am easily influenced, to the point of not having to talk to someone – a status update would send me into all sorts of self-searching. I guess I was not seeing anything I liked thinking about. Or maybe it was exactly what I needed – a push to go outside my box that was the online world – the ultimate irony.
It wasn’t nice to waste time either. I wasted at least 2 hours a day since 2006 looking at / thinking about Facebook. What did I gain from it? Questionable. What did I lose? Lots of time. Precious time. There are times when we need support from many, there are times when we need support from a few, there are times when we need to be alone. The trick is recognizing which of the times we are in and making the conditions ideal for such a time.
I have no doubt I’ll be back on it someday, after I grow out of this isolation and self-improvement phase.
Not yet. Lots of things to cross off the list.
–credits to fellow scallywag Cap’n Jazli Aziz for discoverin’ this ere’ treasure.
