Life is weird sometimes

For a while now I've been thinking of ways to reduce my consumption of social media, mainly because I realized what a huge time suck it had all become. On my days off from the hospital I would end up mindlessly scrolling for upwards of twelve hours a day, get nothing accomplished and go to bed agitated and aggravated and stressed out because I'd gotten nothing done.

Then, the craziest thing happened. Someone hijacked the Facebook page I'd had for almost 13 years! They changed the email address and removed my telephone number, leaving me with no way to get back into that account. So, I set up a new one. Easy peasy, right? Nope. Whoever hijacked my original page then reported me for impersonating myself and had the new account suspended. I went through all the steps to recover the second one, but when I was asked to upload a photo of my driver's license, I said to myself "Oh hell no! If I don't have to upload that to start a Facebook page, why would I do it now? What are they going to compare it to?"

So, I just deleted the app altogether. I won't lie, the last few days have been an adjustment for me. It's been hard to realize that I don't have a way to check in on people and see their photos and read some news. However, I am getting used to it, and like I told my mom, all the people who matter the most have my phone number. The upswing to it, though, is that I'm not picking up my phone as often and mindlessly scrolling through social media. I think the next one to go will be Twitter - or whatever it's called now.

All of that being said, the loss of my facebook page really struck home with the fact that I need to own all my own content. I have no way of knowing how the person who stole 13 years of memories is using all of that information and that does bother me. Luckily I have all the photos backed up on to my computer at home, but it's really the contacts and memories

I lost that bothers me the most.

But now I am more motivated than ever to develop this website and create the content that you deserve. All I'm asking for is some interaction and some shares!