Thoughts about Abandoning Facebook
After 20 years, I'm thinking about kicking Mark Zuckerberg to the curb. I was an early adopter of Facebook. My first post was in 2005, when working as a recruiter for a graduate school. Facebook in the early days was a collegiate program. It was designed as a way for college students to connect, so you had to have a .edu email to sign up. As a recruiter with a .edu email, I was able to connect with the undergraduates that I was trying to reach. Not that anyone cares, but here are a few reasons I’ve considering taking a break from that 20-year relationship with das Buch. Facebook has become an advertising venture. There are so many ads, and they are so intrusive, it takes a mental energy to sort through them. And that’s what Facebook wants: all that mental energy is actually a form of engagement. I want to stay connected with old and new friends, not strangers. In the past few weeks, I received 40 requests for “friendship” on Facebook. None of them had I eve...
