sans facebook
back in december, i moved my desk out of our shared office into our dining room for better lighting. everything is amplified now, sounds from inside the house and outside of it. the sirens don’t stop. i must be able to hear them from one side of the city to the other. the office was always noisy with fans and other sounds of work, so i guess i never noticed there was so much emergency activity happening in town.
that reminds me: i didn’t expect to feel so entirely out of the loop after deleting facebook, lol. it isn’t so much the fear of missing out; it’s more a sense that i’ve thanos’d a significant portion of my “social network”, clearcutting hundreds of relationships with varying levels of depth, along with a virtual identity, a social doppelganger, i lived with for – wow – fourteen years.
reminds me of that scarjo line in asteroid city: “i never had children, but sometimes I wonder if I wish I should have.” i don’t miss meta, but sometimes i wonder if i wish i should.