Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand wayPink Floyd
That is exactly what Facebook is doing to our lives. If we let it. When I summed up all the hours, days, years that I’ve spent reading the huge amount of bullshit people are posting on Facebook (and even more time spent actively contributing to it), I was devastated by the thought what good and creative things could have been done with that time instead. Years ago I made a self-liberating decision to stop following the mainstream media news. To stop polluting my brain with completely unnecessary facts that the rulers of this world call “news”, using the media to insert them in people’s heads in order to manipulate them. And now I’ve found myself as a participant in a cyber-reality show throwing around the same kind of garbage, only in a slightly different, interactive way. Is there a way out? Continue reading “Use Facebook, don’t let Facebook use you”