I’m pretty serious about this one.
Every time I scroll through my Facebook news feed, it’s garbage. Old garbage, new garbage, political garbage, garbage about racism.
It’s just plain bad news. Don’t do it.
I started writing this the other day but didn’t get around to finishing it.
Anyway, I keep getting sucked into this endless trap of suck. I mean, there are a few things that are worth keeping up with. One of my friends is going to give birth any day now, and is posting updates about contractions and such. Another friend posts a lot of cute kid pictures and funny stories, and I have a few more friends who get me with their witty one-liners or a funny meme or something. But if it’s a link to an article about something political, whether it’s race relations, the Presidential campaigns, Israel, gender discrimination – and now, the $20 bill changing to Harriet Tubman – I tend to not scroll past them as quickly as I know I should.
Yet, I still subject myself to it. I guess it’s important to me to know what’s going on with my friends, even if it is pictures of what they ate that morning or them checking into airports in exotic cities I’ll probably never get the chance to see. However, that doesn’t stop the Facebook feed, from becoming a dangerous place. Often times I’ve found myself practically agreeing with what a friend posts, even if it’s totally against my own belief system, because it’s well worded, or looks official, or something. And then I wander off and suddenly it’s two hours later.
Maybe I just need to get more positive friends.
That’s So Jacob 
I know exactly what you mean. The worst thing is (and it hurts to admit it) that when I was living overseas this was actually my main source of knowledge about what was happening back home and around the world. Sad, particularly for someone who actually cares about current affairs
My sympathies.
Haven’t done it for a while. Backing right off FB and loving it.
I approve!
Thanks!