Facebook

I deactivated my Facebook account. I couldn’t really stand to listen to the drive anymore especially in a forum where conversation seems to be willfully suppressed by the users and staff. I was tired of dealing with extremist, uncompromising Right politics and I cannot escape that living in this area. But I can choose to not have that fight anymore. I believe in something different than the norm and I’m tired of getting myself passed off because of it.

One of the events leading to my ultimate move was an old friend via church spouting how socialism was sinful, against God, and basically jusfication for hell. I just don’t want ideas like that. I can’t rationally deal with those kinds of people. They will cite whatever they deem scripture and have therefore proved my sinful state of believing the best in people instead of the worst. From a religion that teaches to rise above the natural man they sure like to revel in the qualities they themselves consider fallen.

This, I admit, may have had more to do with the people I had in my network than the platform itself. Unfortunately Facebook is so institutionalized among people my age that certain social relationships require that you be friends on the blue box network. So instead I’ve just left the network. I’m definitely not as angry, but I’m still just as alone.