Getting the hell out of Facebook

So, I’m back here because I have finally left Facebook behind but I need a place to share my thoughts and this place has long felt like a safe space.  I have history here, made friends here once, lost friends here several times, but it still feels like home.

Why did I leave Facebook?  It was clearly time.  The automated censors they’ve recently implemented were routinely deleting my posts for stupid reasons like “posted to get attention and likes” – as if social interaction isn’t precisely the reason we engage with social media.  Elsewhere, it was deleting anything with dark humor, sarcasm, or satire … so basically everything I was posting.

Eventually, I became enraged at another deleted post and went on a cursing tirade that caused Facebook to limit my activity on the site to the point where I could do nothing – essentially forcing me off.  Odd behavior for a failing website but there you go.

So here I am … again … and hopefully for longer this time.