I Just Got Rid of Facebook!

Enough is enough. If I could figure out how to do it, I would delete my Facebook account permanently. Actually, the only reason I haven’t yet deleted it is because Facebook hasn’t sent me an SMS with the security code I need to complete the deletion of my account.

But I really want to shut Facebook down, because as far as I’m concerned, the whole social media thing has become nothing more than a constant exercise in disinformation, or misinformation, or whatever you want to call information which isn’t based on anything I need to know about at all.

Worse yet, for all the talk about how social media and the internet in general lets us share ideas, build ‘community’ (boy, do I hate that word) and communicate over vast spaces of distance and time, the internet has become nothing more than a vehicle for every fucking advertising agency in the entire world to shove a picture of some useless and unneeded product in front of my face.

The two most recently constructed buildings in my neighborhood aren’t a new school to replace the school which was built in 1946. It’s not some low-cost housing for families which right now are sleeping in their cars. It’s two buildings which contain those self-storage, walk-in spaces where you can store all the junk that you own for sixty bucks a month.