New Dawn, New Day, New Life...?
Sep. 12th, 2017 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormant_dragonYesterday I deactivated my Facebook profile.
It's something I probably should have done quite some time ago - I've been investing what are, for me, unhealthy amounts of time and energy in posting opinions and getting into arguments (or outright fights) on my page. It's really not been good for my headspace.
So today has been my first full day without Facebooking in any way for probably a few months.
And it's been good, actually.
I feel curiously liberated, in a way. I thought the impulse to share small details about my life would be hard to shake off - but strangely enough, it seems to have simply dissipated with the doffing of the available outlet. Perhaps not that surprising, considering I didn't grow up with social media (which is probably just as well) and have in general been a bit of a late-adopter, compared to most of my social circle.
There's something a bit too fast and loose about Facebook, at least the way I've been using it recently. It's all too easy to post something without really thinking about it thoroughly or considering the possible consequences. There are times when I have had reason to regret something posted in a fit of anger or hurt or just ennui.
This is, in part, why I've come back to Dreamwidth, after - as I noticed when looking back over my account this evening - almost four years since my last blog post here. The longer-form blogging suits my style better, I feel; and it slows me down enough to put more thought and - perhaps - a little more artistry into what I write; and more importantly, to feel that I must have something really worthwhile to say before I commit it to words.
So at this point, I don't think I will go back to Facebook, even though when I deactivated my account, I thought I might at some point. I will take the time to slow down and think and appreciate more; and I will probably get a bit closer to being the person I want to be as a consequence.
It's something I probably should have done quite some time ago - I've been investing what are, for me, unhealthy amounts of time and energy in posting opinions and getting into arguments (or outright fights) on my page. It's really not been good for my headspace.
So today has been my first full day without Facebooking in any way for probably a few months.
And it's been good, actually.
I feel curiously liberated, in a way. I thought the impulse to share small details about my life would be hard to shake off - but strangely enough, it seems to have simply dissipated with the doffing of the available outlet. Perhaps not that surprising, considering I didn't grow up with social media (which is probably just as well) and have in general been a bit of a late-adopter, compared to most of my social circle.
There's something a bit too fast and loose about Facebook, at least the way I've been using it recently. It's all too easy to post something without really thinking about it thoroughly or considering the possible consequences. There are times when I have had reason to regret something posted in a fit of anger or hurt or just ennui.
This is, in part, why I've come back to Dreamwidth, after - as I noticed when looking back over my account this evening - almost four years since my last blog post here. The longer-form blogging suits my style better, I feel; and it slows me down enough to put more thought and - perhaps - a little more artistry into what I write; and more importantly, to feel that I must have something really worthwhile to say before I commit it to words.
So at this point, I don't think I will go back to Facebook, even though when I deactivated my account, I thought I might at some point. I will take the time to slow down and think and appreciate more; and I will probably get a bit closer to being the person I want to be as a consequence.
