A few months ago I announced to my FB friends that I would stop using FB.  I was simply burnt out on it and I didn’t know why.  I have a memorial site for my wife who passed away, so I’ve stopped in to post some things on that but nothing for me.  The one exception was on my birthday in June where a lot of people still passed on good wishes and I responded.

So why did I get burnt out?  What went wrong?  I think it simply comes down to people.  There is a “tax” to connecting with too many people.  And let’s be honest, there are some people you didn’t get along with in the past and you still don’t even now.  But it’s hard to “unfriend” them because you don’t want them to feel bad or for yourself to look like an jerk.  So you don’t, thinking that it won’t hurt.  But the reality is that it does hurt.  You start to see messages, posts and what not from people and it starts to grate.  I’m sure there are people who friended me that don’t want to hear what I say as well.

So what have I learned?  While “social media” seems to be a lot different, there are still a lot of similarities to the real world.  Friend and interact with people you want to interact with.  If you don’t want to interact with someone then don’t.  If you see something from someone and more often then not you find yourself irritated, then stop.

Social media sites like FB should be fun, social and drama free.  Will I go back???  I have to work on my list of friends.  The cheap way would be for me to publish my tweets and Instagram stuff to FB.  But I feel that it’s wrong.  People want to comment then you should be there to hear the comments.