The more time I spend on Facebook, the less I enjoy it any longer.<\/p>\n
It sufficiently keeps me up-to-date on distant relatives and friends but only if I\u2019m willing to spend hours unearthing their individual posts. I\u2019m becoming less interested in doing so. I would rather spend time on the NY Times website reading news or tangling with the day\u2019s crossword.<\/p>\n
Mostly, I\u2019m tired of the unoriginality of most people\u2019s FB posts \u2014 the borrowed posters with clever sayings, the shared videos gone viral, the obvious truth that people lack communication skills except vicariously through others. This is sad, actually.<\/p>\n
I also find troubling how people feel FB is a private forum and they willingly post personal information they would not want published in public. Yet often what they post becomes immediately available to anyone with\u00a0 a computer and a Facebook account \u2014 birthdays, children\u2019s names, upcoming vacations (so thieves will know they\u2019re not home).<\/p>\n
They express political and personal viewpoints they likely would never want published in a newspaper. They think that FB is more private when, depending on their privacy settings, it could be spread to an even wider audience than they imagine.<\/p>\n
As\u00a0 much as I dislike FB for my own personal use, I find it invaluable in my business to locate people for interviews and to get leads for stories. I use it to make connections, and to inform and infer.<\/p>\n
And for one of my hobbies \u2014 genealogy \u2014 I\u2019m able to build onto my family tree simply by reading the personal information distant family members post about their immediate families such as children\u2019s names and birthdays. People reveal a lot about themselves in that forum.<\/p>\n
Becky Clark, The more time I spend on Facebook, the less I enjoy it any longer. It sufficiently keeps me up-to-date on distant relatives and friends but only if I\u2019m willing to spend hours unearthing their individual posts. I\u2019m becoming less interested in doing so. I would rather spend time on the NY Times website reading news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":31633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,680],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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