Today I'm quitting social media.

I took off a year I think in 2015 from facebook.  I never deleted the account- but I remember thinking I'd keep it open in case anyone wanted to message me.  Only 1 person did the entire year.  It was to invite me to a group dinner (I think it was a mass message) and when I let him know I wasn't able to come, I never got a response.  I remember it just being pretty laid back and relaxed without it

The next year I think in 2016 I gave up Instagram also.  Again not deleting it (i'm not sure what my justification was there, again I had a "friend" in Ireland, maybe I was hoping they would message me?) Even more peaceful- I forgot about both pretty easily.  I tried snapchat for a couple months but grew bored with that also.

Fast forward to today.  I'm back to looking at both daily.  Several times a day for fb, a few times a day for Instagram and I'm sick of it.

I've been doing this for about 3 weeks now.

I remember the day I checked fb for the first time after over a year.  I "popped" in just to see my half sisters new born baby picture.  My dad had told me about him and I was curious.  When I looked for the pictures I saw that I had a friend request.

Well, I don't want to hurt their feelings I thought.  That seems so silly now.  So I justified that I would "pop" in every now and then to check and see if I had any new friend requests and I got them!

About 6--

Then I thought well, I'll scroll a bit and see what everybody is up too---

POSTING POLITICAL CRAP is what everyone is up to!

I was happy to see that a girl who had been single for a long time finally found a guy and is in love.  The funny thing is, is that I don't even like the girl.  She's ignored my lunch meet up invites and was always a back stabber.  But for some reason I was curious about her and this new man.

I slid further and further until I was just like everyone else again-- I posted a few times justifying that it was ok because I was just posting it to the homebrew club page-

But SHIT!  I became hooked again.  Damn they're good!

So-- today, I quit social media.  AGAIN I haven't deleted it yet.  But it starts a new year.  This time next year for both Instagram and facebook if I haven't been messaged on either form than I'll delete both accounts.

Wheeeeee!

I'm excited and relieved!

Until Next Time!