A Week without Facebook.
I decided to spend this week off of Facebook. I allow myself to be way too compulsive on that site and I need to take a step back and chill the F out.
I guess this concludes the sudden urge to update my status.
It is actually kind of nice not knowing what people are doing today. I don't have to think about who cried over last week's episode of Lost, who got coffee from Peet's or who is just sitting around being bored at work. I feel a little liberated in not knowing what is going on for other people at this particular moment.
All I have done today is look at the updates and responses about my Engagement party pics sent to me via e-mail but that is about all.
What made me decide to do this is a keep getting wrapped up in a political debate with a person who is the polar opposite of my political views. On the one hand, it has been very frustrating. On the other hand, I have been very fascinated by how this person thinks and why she believes what she believes and where she draws her conclusions from. In some sort of sick way, I think I am making her a better debate opponent. When we first started debating, she mostly relied on her immediate opinions. Now she is starting to post more news articles and websites. Despite the fact I disagree with her, I am glad that she is forming a better sense of why thinks the way she does. She is also very bound and determined not to change her mind regardless of the evidence presented to her. We are at an impasse and it is time for me to stop trying to convert her and her to try to convert me. I am starting to realize how fixed I am on my point of views. Having opposition has really informed me of my personal reactions and what I choose to believe. I have also been on a fact-finding mission because it is with debate that I realize I don't know as much as I think I do. I have more opinion than facts and I am working on changing that.
I am hoping this week out of Facebook and out of debate with this person will do me some good and help me focus on the world outside of politics, superpoke, bejeweled, and status updates. It is about time I stopped worrying too much about the outside world and start worrying about what I personally need to get done.
I guess this concludes the sudden urge to update my status.
It is actually kind of nice not knowing what people are doing today. I don't have to think about who cried over last week's episode of Lost, who got coffee from Peet's or who is just sitting around being bored at work. I feel a little liberated in not knowing what is going on for other people at this particular moment.
All I have done today is look at the updates and responses about my Engagement party pics sent to me via e-mail but that is about all.
What made me decide to do this is a keep getting wrapped up in a political debate with a person who is the polar opposite of my political views. On the one hand, it has been very frustrating. On the other hand, I have been very fascinated by how this person thinks and why she believes what she believes and where she draws her conclusions from. In some sort of sick way, I think I am making her a better debate opponent. When we first started debating, she mostly relied on her immediate opinions. Now she is starting to post more news articles and websites. Despite the fact I disagree with her, I am glad that she is forming a better sense of why thinks the way she does. She is also very bound and determined not to change her mind regardless of the evidence presented to her. We are at an impasse and it is time for me to stop trying to convert her and her to try to convert me. I am starting to realize how fixed I am on my point of views. Having opposition has really informed me of my personal reactions and what I choose to believe. I have also been on a fact-finding mission because it is with debate that I realize I don't know as much as I think I do. I have more opinion than facts and I am working on changing that.
I am hoping this week out of Facebook and out of debate with this person will do me some good and help me focus on the world outside of politics, superpoke, bejeweled, and status updates. It is about time I stopped worrying too much about the outside world and start worrying about what I personally need to get done.