Why Facebook is Passé — in Under Three Minutes
At the end of 2020, I decided to completely get off Facebook. I emptied out my profile and stopped using the platform.
It started out nice enough when I first got on the platform in 2007. It was novel and it was a novelty, a place to connect with friends far and near. It was even somewhat useful when traveling to know if any of your friends were nearby.
You will be happier without Facebook stealing minutes from your days (maybe hours for some).
It’s a Useless Time Suck
Then it became nothing but a time suck of people mostly arguing over politics where no opinions are ever changed and bad repetitive advertisements bombard you like spitballs for things Facebook “thinks” you want because you once looked at a vacuum cleaner ad on another page.
Weirdly enough Facebook has also become a place for people sitting at home to yell into the void as if Facebook was their personal virtual therapist.
It has created a nation of people venting their soliloquies into the ether about whatever is frustrating them on any particular day as if that very act itself has become the pressure relief valve to get something off their chest, even though nobody is listening…
