Facebook Controversy
If you do not like what they are doing. Delete your account. Controversy Over.
Call, Text and See your friends. Your real friends. Problem Solved.
Ordinary.
The Wonders of an Ordinary Life
We live in an age with a high regard for extraordinary lives – that is, lives that the vast majority of us will never lead. Our heroes have made outsized fortunes, appeared on gigantic screens and demonstrated unique virtue and talent. Their achievements are both dazzling and continuously, in the background, humiliating.
Social Media and the Facebook Companies compel you to strive to be the hero. To be dazling. To share an idea that changes the world but in 15 seconds.
Be ordinary.
- Call a friend
- Help a neighbor
- Smile at your spouse or partner
- Be warm and gentle
In the late 1650s, the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer painted a picture called The Little Street. Doing so was a quiet but momentous and revolutionary act, with an impact that challenges our values to this day.
Follow the link and read on.
2021 - The Year of the Personal Blog
Fall of 2019 I deleted my facebook account.
Fall of 2020 I deleted my instagram account.
I never looked back.
Do not doubt that there was an addiction. It took a week for me to stop wanting to pick up my phone and look at what is going.
It was not just “The election” or “Covid fatigue” - It is that I wanted my mind back.
People tend to complain about Facebook as if something recently curdled. There’s a notion that the social web was once useful, or at least that it could have been good, if only we had pulled a few levers: some moderation and fact-checking here, a bit of regulation there, perhaps a federal antitrust lawsuit. But that’s far too sunny and shortsighted a view. Today’s social networks, Facebook chief among them, were built to encourage the things that make them so harmful. It is in their very architecture. - Facebook is a Doomsday Machine, by Adrienne Lafrance The Atlantic December 15, 2020.
In your bones you know it is true. Facebook preys on our worst behaviors to make money. They use the power of addiction to make users use more.
Break the cycle.
In the words of The Chicks “Be an Army of One”
My Plan
I made a list of my friend that really matter to me. I made 100% sure that I had their details in my contact list on my phone and I used it. I sent iMessages. I called. I emailed.
I will continue in 2021 and I will do more of it.
2021
I do want to share what I am doing. I want to provide context for the conversations I am having with people. Life’s celebratations and life’s difficult lessons learned.
I want to say. “Here’s what I see, here’s how you can be part of it.” Seth Godin
A new school but old school personal blog.
Welcome to my micro.blog
Here, I write for you.
For you, I am always here.
Lipids
Lipids.
This steak looks amazing right? But the chunk of beef suet next to it is even better. I have experimented this year with eating more fat.
If you are aware of the low carb or keto community the phase high fat diet is common. But what type of fat? And most of the time that fat comes with protein. It can be difficult to eat pure fat.
Enter Beef Suet.
When I eat it, I am amazed how little I need to eat before I feel full.
The Grier Cookie Company.
My wife made me this sign. I love it.
In 2019 I made sugar cookies for Thanksgiving.
I enjoyed it and started making them around Christmas and giving them away to friends and neighbors.
Come on Out - The Airborne Toxic Event.
I cannot get enough of this song. The video is moving. music.apple.com/us/music-…
I just re signed up for Micro Blog. I am hoping to use it more. I am getting tired of instragram but want a place to write and post some pictures of what I do.
Today I signed for micro.blog.