• Thinking about finally deleting my Facebook account
    • jwz says Everyone at Facebook is qwhite complicit
    • I joined Facebook in December 2006 - ~14 years is a long while.
    • I've been on reduced usage for the last year or two, just checking in once or twice a month
    • I have a lot of family, friends, and acquaintances on there that I don't keep in touch with any other way.
    • I'm afraid I'll lose touch with them permanently if I delete my account
      • This probably sounds melodramatic and like a teacup-tempest
    • I am historically not at all good at keeping in touch with people
    • But maybe it's time and it'll work itself out somehow.
    • Maybe I should take stock of the specific people I think I'll miss on leaving Facebook and try contacting them each individually out-of-band
      • That sounds like a great big load of spoons
  • I have an Instagram account, too
    • Less-used, but also Facebook-owned
    • I haven't entirely hated that place
  • I've had similar thoughts about deleting my Twitter account
    • I joined Twitter in October 2006 - ~14 years is a long while
    • Similar concerns about lacking social spoons and permanently losing people
    • Less family & friends.
    • More acquaintances, industry folks, and generally interesting voices.
    • Twitter has eaten my brain in a lot of ways.
      • What I used to collect in notes like these have ended up immediately blurted in Tweets
      • What I used to assemble into blog posts or books doesn't happen anymore
  • I have an account on the ActivityPub fediverse - i.e. Mastodon
    • Good folks there, but I don't seem to keep sticking
  • I've tried to engage a bit more on Discord
    • Kind of bewildering, though. Everyone has their own separate server.
    • Most servers are devoted to a topic or a hobby or a micro-celebrity
    • My spoons are just diffused into nothing when I try to hop between them
    • Twitter & Facebook are singularities, though that's also part of the problem
  • Maybe I should assemble all of this social media fretting into a blog post
    • Something like "trying to find new places to hang out online"
    • Or I guess just deleting Facebook