Social Suicide (Or How I Used GS Confessions To Quit Facebook)

I's been a year since I posted on Facebook. A late to join skeptic, I was mistrustful of the site from the beginning and also my friend's online behaviour from previous examples of social networking. Never using my real name or photo, I joined the fun, earned the lingo and essentially became addicted. For a while before the share and feed functions, I would try and make sure that I had read every post from every friend. i became a bit of a brat with commenting and posting strange things. eventually, no-one got my sense of humour and I realized that they simply weren't seeing my posts let alone interacting with them. Algorithms changed and people got too many friends. Most people that I had to de-friend were new acquaintances. Eventually I found that i could actually post what I was really thinking here without worrying about being PC. Even a fun little status like "I play guitar because its safer and cheaper than riding motorbikes" would alientate my motorcycle enthusiast friends. There's always some underlying polarity and someone will always get offended. Now I keep the account in case there is info that is only available on their site. Also I no longer spend my free time chatting to people that just seem to need gratification and wont venture out in the real world. So before you go saying that I am using social networking to say that I quit social networking, consider a couple of things about confessions. First it's anonymous, second, theres also a downvote. third, theres a moderator who screens posts. fourth, the commentors here are extremely harsh, so it's nothing like the "just press like" mentality of the 'book. then, sixth and seventh - the moderator screens comments, then the editor screens the confessions that get published in the actual paper. so there's a huge amount of oversight before something actually gets distribution, and im happy that my thoughts regularly reach a much wider audience than my handful of fb friends.

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Jan 13, 2017 at 10:22am

I guess the suicide part was the "out of sight out of mind" phenomenon where most friends disappeared and generally expect you to know whats going in their life because of what they post instead of talking about it.

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