Facebook

I like things simple.  When they become complicated I tend to shy away from them.  I've done complicated -- it's no fun -- generally.

That doesn't mean I don't like intricate, or interesting -- just not, well, complicated.

Facebook is becoming just that.  Too many social situations to deal with. 

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, so it's getting to the point where I have to sift through tons of stuff I have absolutely no interest in at all.

Or worse!  Sometimes it is stuff that I find off putting, unpleasant, even repulsive.  Sometimes it is just preaching to the choir.  Sometimes it really makes sense, but it isn't something I consider recreational material.  For me -- Facebook is strictly recreational. 

If I am interested in something, find it fascinating, or unique, or pictures and info on family and friends, I like it.

If I am brought to a slow boil by it, I mostly try to avoid it.  I get enough of that in the news.  I know what's going on in the world.  I have very distinct opinions on almost all of it.  There has to be a place where that does not figure into my life, a place that is just fun.  That's all I want from Facebook.  Nothing else.

I am becoming the ultimate skimmer.  (A skimmer is someone swimming fast enough not to drown in the opinions, rants, raves and other darkness floating around out there.)

But don't worry.  I give and get a fair dose of reality in a million other places, so I can't possibly go through life uneducated or unscathed.