I have always been only a half-hearted user of facebook. I've been really bad about staying in touch with it lately (and other social media too, like Korea's kakao, etc.). Nevertheless I view it as a valuable tool for staying in touch with people, and I was very grateful to have it as a means of staying in touch during my illness last summer. Lately I have neglected it, feeling both strongly anti-social and specifically anti-facebook.
I have decided to end the "feed" between my blog and facebook. I have two reasons. First, I feel it gives people a false impression of my level of participation in facebook when they see posts from my blog – people don't seem to realize that my blog "cross-posts" to facebook without my having to log into facebook. I think it's more "honest" for me to only post in facebook when I'm actually in facebook – then people can see how rarely I actually go there (hmm, maybe once a month, these days?). Second, the cross-posting function is unreliable and there are formatting issues that are hard to manage, sometimes. So rather than having to monitor it, I'll just go back to the old way: if people want to see what I'm up to, they can visit my blog directly.
Anyway, thank you to all my friends and acquaintances who have followed my blog because of these cross-postings to facebook.
[daily log: walking, 5 km]
Hmmm… that’s usually how I know you’ve posted! Is there a way to subscribe to an RSS feed or get an email when you post? I don’t use a feed reader…
How are you doing these, Jared? I hope you’re doing all right. I called several days back to check on you, but I’m not sure if you can talk. I hope all is well.
Hi Basil.
I’m doing OK. I saw you had called but by the time I could notice, a day had passed and I just didn’t have the gumption to call back.
I can talk fine – I’m teaching 30 classroom hours a week right now, talking continuously. And therefore when I’m not working I’m basically not in the mood to talk, if that makes sense at all.
It’s been rough going, and I’ve been in a black depression – as bad (no… worse) as during those dark LBridge days when I was millimeters away from a midnight run. The causes are different now, though: the job sucks in a kind of hard-to-define way, but ultimately it’s my health issues that have me down. It’s painful to eat. Have you ever considered the extent to which food and the enjoyment of food are central to our lives, not just our biological lives but our social lives? Every time a coworker offers me food or a friend says “let’s meet for lunch” I am reminded. I have become an alien.
Anyway, life goes on. Sorry I don’t respond very promptly – I’ve been pretty anti-social and so I tend to ignore my phone, email, etc. for days at a time sometimes, except for “must do” things related to work.
Hope you’re doing well. Thanks for the note, friend.
I miss you and it miss your FB posts!!!! Sending you positive thoughts and lots of love through ecommunications!!!
Tracy