A pleasure to read Dreamwidth

[icarus]

I had a friend on Facebook, the evil Facebook, who had cancer. An old childhood friend, and I followed her there to keep up with her health. Other friends, nuns and monks, my mother, were also Over There. So I disappeared for a time down the FB rathole. The algorithm's the worst. Any mood you're in gets intensified, you "like" one political post and then that's all you see -- although the Russian trolls have learned to leave me alone on my politicians' pages (if they annoy me, I call my representatives and tell them what great jobs they're doing--then I tell the trolls I called. They don't like that).

So refreshing to be back on DW, to read about your lives, your cats, your garden drainage problems. It's like coming home to humanity.

Comments

[elf]

I don't have a FB account, but I enjoyed the article about how avoiding the Like button helps a lot.

[icarus]

That's interesting. I'm going to give it a shot, because I do have a lot of friends there and have reconnected to people I know from high school.

[katuah]

I dont do anything personal on FB. It's all politics in my posts. I come here to DW to be personal.

[icarus]

I think that's wise of you. :)

[timespirt]

I don't have a FB account and the way they protect their own ass when it comes to collecting everyone's info will keep me from ever joining.