I am taking a break from Facebook.
Sep. 24th, 2011 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiI am fully aware that hating the new Facebook design is a first-world problem, yes. And I've had enough actual problems in my life to recognize a stupid problem when I see one.
That said, the immediate irritation I felt upon clicking on my Facebook bookmark the past few days told me that something was up. Partly it told me to look at the calendar for a sudden insight, but it also told me to start parsing the emotion. So I did.
Okay, here's the thing: it's too much noise.
Facebook is a noisy place--it's the high school cafeteria of the internet. But the new design--with the weird ticker to the side giving me real-time updates of things people are saying, and the addition of links to posts that my friends like, when those posts are by people I don't know at all*--is much, much noisier.
Anyway, I think I need some quiet time. I like LiveJournal, where there is context and not so much noise.
I figure anything I could say on Facebook, I can either say here or text to people. The people I feel need to see photos of my kid can get them via email or text, too. (Though the native messaging app on my Droid won't make a group for messaging, so apparently I need to get another app to do it. This will be after I pull a bunch of pictures and a game off the thing to make some room.)
(I've also been thinking about the Zweeble's presence on the web, and how he's getting older, and how I want to deal with that. I have no conclusions right now.)
So I pulled the Facebook bookmarks off my toolbar and my phone--I am a creature of habit, and would likely click the thing without thinking because it's the next button on the list--and am going to try and be Facebook-free for a week. See how I feel after that.
*I have tried three different ways to turn those off, and they don't stop. In fact, I can unsubscribe, click to look at a photo, and then when I come back, the post I unsubscribed on is back.
That said, the immediate irritation I felt upon clicking on my Facebook bookmark the past few days told me that something was up. Partly it told me to look at the calendar for a sudden insight, but it also told me to start parsing the emotion. So I did.
Okay, here's the thing: it's too much noise.
Facebook is a noisy place--it's the high school cafeteria of the internet. But the new design--with the weird ticker to the side giving me real-time updates of things people are saying, and the addition of links to posts that my friends like, when those posts are by people I don't know at all*--is much, much noisier.
Anyway, I think I need some quiet time. I like LiveJournal, where there is context and not so much noise.
I figure anything I could say on Facebook, I can either say here or text to people. The people I feel need to see photos of my kid can get them via email or text, too. (Though the native messaging app on my Droid won't make a group for messaging, so apparently I need to get another app to do it. This will be after I pull a bunch of pictures and a game off the thing to make some room.)
(I've also been thinking about the Zweeble's presence on the web, and how he's getting older, and how I want to deal with that. I have no conclusions right now.)
So I pulled the Facebook bookmarks off my toolbar and my phone--I am a creature of habit, and would likely click the thing without thinking because it's the next button on the list--and am going to try and be Facebook-free for a week. See how I feel after that.
*I have tried three different ways to turn those off, and they don't stop. In fact, I can unsubscribe, click to look at a photo, and then when I come back, the post I unsubscribed on is back.
