I too closed my Facebook account three years ago for very much the same reasons and have not missed it since I’ve used the time that I wasted on Facebook daily to hone my writing skills and it has definitely paid off

Take your Facebook time and do something significant with it. you’ll be a better person for it.

I don’t read fiction at all unfortunately — I’m a music diehard — — I play both guitar and bass and seek out things I haven’t heard with a passion. I can understand where you are coming from with Proust on a different level.

Maybe we can talk about listening to a side of Coltrane a day keeps the doctor away?

Thank you for your article