Vol II: #36 Imagine There’s No Facebook
As of this writing, Facebook, Instagram, and the messaging app WhatsApp are all offline. It’s wonderful. The outage began around 8:45 AM PST and is still ongoing as of 10:21 AM PST. For a giant tech company, that’s a long time to be down. And I, I love it.
I spent the last hour with a smile plastered to my face. Imagine it, a world without Facebook or Instagram. It wouldn’t be a world without social media as platforms like YouTube, Snapchat, and Tik Tok still exist. But, just picture it. No comparison of daily life. No misleading and/or false news stories. No Boomers glued to their Facebook feeds, consuming a million miles of bullshit. Ah, to dream, perchance to imagine a world without the most annoying and divisive technology of our lifetime.
I have a Facebook account for BSSM(I use it for school purposes as required) and an Instagram account, and this moment gave me the clarity to say: I think it’s time to delete the Instagram account. It’s a source of anxiety. I’m ready to be done with it. The main reason I kept it was to promote whatever artwork I produce. And, I genuinely believe the world is better without Facebook and Instagram. We have a variety of messaging apps and ways to share life, so Facebook is hardly a necessity.
Lord, make it permanent. Bye, Bye, Facebook.
