On a sign on a post

Jan. 13, Thurston Hills Natural Area

I may have run out of things to say. But hey, for inspiration, I think of my friend Peter. He has a writing practice; he writes something on Facebook every day—often after stating he’s run out of things to say—or if he doesn’t write he posts a video of himself playing guitar (the music of his people). If he can do it, so can I. Write, not play the guitar. And not on Facebook. My last post there was January 1st. A picture of a little bird, a robin. It was good as a final post. It was a robin on a signpost, in fact. Or a robin on a sign on a post.

I’m not “leaving” Facebook—just not posting. And it might not actually be final. But for now it is. I was ahead of the pack. In the last week, lots of people, upset about Zuck and the whole un-fact-checking thing, are pulling out of FB or at least SAYING that they’re pulling out. Although, there is a counter movement I just saw, something to the effect of “they are doing this shit because they want us to leave, they want to break up our communities—-so we should stay!”—something like that. So I don’t really know what the heck is happening. A Clash song comes to mind, unbidden. It’s not “I’m all lost in the supermarket…” but maybe it should be.

Remember when we didn’t have Facebook, when we didn’t even have Myspace? Hey, remember when we didn’t even have texting or email? Wait, I guess we might want to keep email (even though I know some people who never check theirs!), and maybe even texting. But fuck, don’t you think we all know too much about each other now? Just by passively consuming feeds? There are some people I used to like a lot more before I was exposed to their social media posts. Seriously.

Okay, I’ll stop those thoughts before I snowball this negativity train any further.

But I’m kind of old, I’m 64. Many young people haven’t ever even had a Facebook account (I’m told). They are somewhere else. I’m not sure where, and it doesn’t even matter. TikTok? I don’t want to know. I am happy plying my blog. Thanks for reading. :)