after 17 days away from facebook, I've decided not to read my feed any more

[belenen]

icon: "distance (two hands (from a brown person and a white person) just barely apart, facing each other palm to palm)"Last night I ended my 17 days of not looking at facebook, and I feel pretty good about it. Initially I had only intended a week, but at the end of that week I got nervous about logging back on to a flood of notifications (since I

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[belenen]

I would love to know how it goes!

[belenen]

It is hard *deep frown* I'm sorry you're still having to deal with that.

[belenen]

I have 2 fbs, one that is for work/family and one that is for friends. It's easy to limit the work/fam one because I don't really have my heart in it; it's just an electronic address book essentially. but the one where I am real, I have loads of stuff to get lost in.

[piashlara]

I feel you so much on this! Facebook is such a like button hunting ground nowadays and people not talking about anything really... I missed LJ as well and am glad to be back <3

[belenen]

I have sort of the opposite problem - my friends are all pretty fascinating there but there's a lot of non-original distracting content and no way to filter it out *frowns*

[piashlara]

Boo, Facebook is just a bad place, no matter how we twist it xD

[belenen]

Thanks!

I've never really dealt with much comparison stuff in general, but I do get a little down every single time I see someone I tried investing in posting fun photos with everyone elae, and I'm just kind of like "wel?!? why not me??" I feel like I am the worst at makimg face to face friends.