***Disclaimer: If you like and/or enjoy Facebook, that is fine. I am not bashing you. I am just sharing my personal thoughts and opinions and I respect yours as well.***
So yesterday I did something that, for some odd reason, is a bigger deal than it
should be: I deactivated my Facebook profile. This is something that should be a
minuscule event in my life, almost
unnoteworthy. However, with how much social media has become a
"seemingly integral" (and I use that phrase
loosely) part of our everyday lives, it has had an immediate effect on my life and how I spend my time.
Honestly, I don't really understand why Facebook is such a phenomenon anyway. Most of the people on my friends list were people that I hadn't spoken 2 words to in the last 5 years and most of what those people had to say was nothing but complaints about their lives, which were full of horrendous grammatical errors. (That is one of my biggest pet peeves.)
Plus, Facebook has that
"addictive yet boring" quality. People are on it all the time, for hours a day and yet, they are doing nothing and most of the time, they aren't enjoying their time. But there's this
incessant need to check on what your sister's best friend's cousin is doing on his Saturday night. And why is that? Is it our intense curiosity? Is it our love to lurk/stalk other people? Do we have nothing better to do with our time than look at other peoples' lives through a computer/phone screen? Call me crazy but I'd rather be making memories than posting selfies of myself doing "the duck face." I only wish that I had done this sooner.
So even though it's been less than 24 hours since I deactivated my account, I have
significantly decreased the amount of time that I spent on the computer today. The most time that I spent on it today was to write this blog, in fact. I actually ended up using the extra time that I had today to work on a novel that I started outlining a few days ago. See already, in less than a day, I have already used the time that I would have normally spent playing Candy Crush on Facebook and lurking my high school friends, to do something productive and I already feel so much better.
As an introvert, I am drained easily by other people and their drama. So not looking at other peoples' useless drama or big family problems
(that people really shouldn't post about on the internet) has helped keep me extremely energized today. I am so happy because all of the productive things that I've done today and I did
not miss looking at Facebook at all today. I'm not sure if I'll stay away forever. Who knows, one day I might end up missing it. But with school, work, writing a novel and trying to take care of things for my husband while he's away, I don't have time for anyone else's drama and if my attitude stays this way, then that's okay. However, until then, I hope that my productivity, happiness and energy levels stay up as I live my life away from a computer screen.
