Faces
I've been thinking about reactivating my Facebook, Livejournal, but I'm still not sure...
I've been away from Facebook so long that I think I've shaken 98% of my dependence, and if I can maintain this relative indifference to it, it probably won't be a problem.
I think the main reason I want to reactivate is because I feel silly having just deactivated it. Like it was a show that I put on, hoping for attention in addition to trying to shake my compulsion to refresh it all the time. It almost makes me feel like Kevin, when he disappeared off the face of the planet, and wouldn't talk to anyone anymore (I've spoken to him since). It's like I quit it because I wasn't getting what I wanted from it, which was a fulfilling degree of social interaction, but when I think about it, I also effectively closed myself off to perhaps today's most common form of communication.
I know Ken's going to think I'm giving up or whatever, but I think I just want to reactivate so people can message me if they want. I'm done reading all my friends' every status update, I'm done clicking cows, I'm done posting every bon mot that pops into mon tete. But I think maybe it's a better expression of self-control if its there and I can keep from becoming addicted to it again.
Oh well, we'll see what happens. I guess its kind of good to know who's actually my friend when I'm two clicks away instead of one.
I've been away from Facebook so long that I think I've shaken 98% of my dependence, and if I can maintain this relative indifference to it, it probably won't be a problem.
I think the main reason I want to reactivate is because I feel silly having just deactivated it. Like it was a show that I put on, hoping for attention in addition to trying to shake my compulsion to refresh it all the time. It almost makes me feel like Kevin, when he disappeared off the face of the planet, and wouldn't talk to anyone anymore (I've spoken to him since). It's like I quit it because I wasn't getting what I wanted from it, which was a fulfilling degree of social interaction, but when I think about it, I also effectively closed myself off to perhaps today's most common form of communication.
I know Ken's going to think I'm giving up or whatever, but I think I just want to reactivate so people can message me if they want. I'm done reading all my friends' every status update, I'm done clicking cows, I'm done posting every bon mot that pops into mon tete. But I think maybe it's a better expression of self-control if its there and I can keep from becoming addicted to it again.
Oh well, we'll see what happens. I guess its kind of good to know who's actually my friend when I'm two clicks away instead of one.