Facebreak

Taking a break from Facebook. I have to. It makes me crazy. I have the worst love/hate relationship with it and one of us needs therapy (NOT ME!). It's something to do while I'm bored. It becomes a malediction. I want to eye gouge people. And before anyone loses an eye, it's best I back away slowly.

I love my friends. I don't want to wish ill will upon anyone, though after reading this, some of you may wish ill will upon ME. The thing is, I DON'T CARE. I don't care how badly you crave attention and make emoticons your status, I'm not going to ask what's wrong. I don't care how many miles you ran or calories you burned or what you ate or how god awful your life is because you're stuck in traffic or you have a hangnail. I'm tired of hearing about your ailments and your drama and your reposting of pics of Donna Reed-esque women calling each other bitches and drinking martinis.

I keep news feed blocking people so I don't have to see their games and what articles they read and pretty soon the only person I'm going to be able to see is my friend Deb Silverman (She always posts cheerful little statuses and corny little anecdotes that ALWAYS make me smile or giggle).

It's just too much. It's too much stimulation. It's too time consuming, because no matter how many times I tell you I don't care, when I have an active facebook page, I CAN'T NOT LOOK! DAMN YOU FACEBOOK!!! I do love looking at people's pics of their kids (although I know a lot of friends find this annoying, I'm ok  with it) and I like being connected to people that I rarely see, and I love bragging about my own life and my own child (yes, super double standard, heh), but I need a break.

And I'm pretty much just talking about all my friends who DON'T read this blog. HA! No, seriously. For those that read my blog, and let me know it, like it, comment it, you are truly appreciated and I honestly am not referring to you guys. I swear I'm not just saying that to get you to keep reading and not send me hate mail. It's that facebook is just too big and too open now. My news feed has stuff on it of people that I don't even know. Because a friend comments on something and there it is on my news feed. Even if I don't know the person whose page was commented on. Or someone likes something or a page or whatever and there it is on my news feed. I'm drowning in information and it's overwhelming and makes me tired.

So a little break. Which is very hard, you know. When you disconnect from Facebook, you pretty much take yourself out of the loop from, well, everything. It's almost a little scary. But also liberating. And don't get crazy, I'm not staying away forever. Because checking facebook every hour is one extreme and never getting back on again is the other extreme, and you know, I'll find that middle ground. That Gray.

PS-since I can't post the link to this blog on my page, for any of you (the whole 2 of you) that I haven't just offended, feel free to post this on facebook ;)