Social Media

I deleted my Facebook account and if I can refrain from logging in before March 10, 2022, it will be permanent. I went on a Facebook diet back in September after a woman I worked around was randomly and senselessly killed at the office. Speculation about her and the circumstances on social media had pushed me to making changes in life that felt more like a middle age rut of mediocrity.
I guess it wasn’t always that way. I recall that I started working a part time job at Sheridan College’s design faculty in 2005 as a printer operator and helping with Mac lab admin. A year or two earlier, I had set out on the path of self employment trying to run a web/mail hosting and IT consulting company with the help of Human Resources Canada small business startup. Bills still needed to be paid and my business senses weren’t and still aren’t about sales and marketing savvy. Within a few months, the kids there got me onto this thing called Facebook to stay in touch and keep up to date. It seemed great for a few years as old friends and family got on and there we caught up with each other. But over the last few years, it consumed more and more of my free time and it became a habit to just start scrolling it.
The community sense of it became public opinion on everything and anything. Events – local, regional and world-wide especially like this COVID19 pandemic that we’re hopefully coming to the end of, most definitely shows a divided population. I used to like hearing about differing perspectives but it’s gotten exhausting, repetitive and polarizing. But, I want to stay somewhat visible here. The new social internet experiment is a BLOG. I’m figuring that you have to have looked for me hard enough to find this site.
If that’s the case, welcome to my thoughts, interests and opinions. They are my own and subject to change with new evidence and observations. I hope some of the content here is useful to you.

-Bill