Why isn’t everyone extremely concerned about this? It actually scares me. I recently took a break from Facebook. At first it was very hard. I was worried about missing something important in somebody’s life that I know. Then I realized if there is something so important, and I’m not in a position to find out in any other way, like an actual phone call, then maybe it is not so important for me to know. There have been a few things, like a death of someone close that I didn’t hear about until too late … huge problem to have to make sure to read social media posts for THAT. What I am mostly missing is endless streams of pictures and involvement in aspects of a person’s life that really don’t concern me, especially people that are not really a part of my “actual life.” I found I was becoming exhausted with trying to keep up with everything about everybody. Truth be told. I feel free now.

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