I wrestled with this for a while and finally pulled the plug on my Facebook account this morning.
No I am not looking for some slap on the ass good game but rather wondering if anyone else is done with Facebook and the like?
If so what were your reasons and was there a final straw so to speak?
For me it was not only the flat out nastiness of people leading up to the election but also Facebook shutting down some of the pages I followed.
The big one for me was the nastiness I saw though. I watched people who I respected as human beings that I am politically opposite of make statements that wouldn't pass the elevator test.
Yes in a way you could say it was over politics but it wasn't the disagreements it was the way people behaved with total lack of human decency. I guess unlike most people I can agree to disagree while others are incapable and also forget that there is another human being on the other side. These same people don't act like that in person so it was surprising to say the least.
Overall I think I'll be better off not seeing that shit anymore and maybe through face to face interaction I'll be able to regain some of the respect that I've lost for people.
So am I the only one or have others decided to pull the plug as well recently?
No I am not looking for some slap on the ass good game but rather wondering if anyone else is done with Facebook and the like?
If so what were your reasons and was there a final straw so to speak?
For me it was not only the flat out nastiness of people leading up to the election but also Facebook shutting down some of the pages I followed.
The big one for me was the nastiness I saw though. I watched people who I respected as human beings that I am politically opposite of make statements that wouldn't pass the elevator test.
Yes in a way you could say it was over politics but it wasn't the disagreements it was the way people behaved with total lack of human decency. I guess unlike most people I can agree to disagree while others are incapable and also forget that there is another human being on the other side. These same people don't act like that in person so it was surprising to say the least.
Overall I think I'll be better off not seeing that shit anymore and maybe through face to face interaction I'll be able to regain some of the respect that I've lost for people.
So am I the only one or have others decided to pull the plug as well recently?