Social Cooling (2017)
This is exactly why I had to get off of Facebook (again).<p>I deactivated my first account 8 years ago, but got back on to re-connect with my old pals and acquaintances from back in the day. For that reason, it was fantastic.<p>After another year, I realized that I can&#x27;t actually say ANYTHING interesting on this platform without offending someone. There&#x27;s a lot of variety in my crowd. I have the sense IRL to know that not everything is for everybody, but that doesn&#x27;t matter much on Facebook unless you want to spend hours and hours hand-crafting subsets of your friends for different topics (I don&#x27;t). And I have zero interest in posting selfies or status updates of what&#x27;s going on in my life, so that made the platform exceedingly boring and a waste of time for me. It&#x27;s a shame, because it does work really well for &quot;connecting&quot; with people (in the shallowest sense of the word).