My love/hate relationship with Facebook that is. I have been wanting to deactivate my account for a long time. I have been logging into the site since 2004. For 6 years, I have dedicated countless hours to peeking into the lives of friends and sometimes, strangers. What started off as a fun way to keep up to date on cute boys & where people were hanging out on Friday nights, has ended up as a way to lazily keep tabs on friends and family.
It's time for a change. I have decided that since I can't control my urge to log on, I will just deactivate the account until I can figure out how to-if ever.
There is a lot about internet communication that bothers me. I don't like when people ask favors over the internet (or text messages for that matter). I don't like only knowing someone by their facebook profile. I don't like how messages can be misinterpreted. I don't like how I can misinterpret messages. Basically, I don't like anything other than face to face communication. Things always get jumbled otherwise. I also don't like how easy it is for me to depersonalize people and react in mean ways, when I otherwise may not have done so. I don't like how lazy it has made me in calling friends-new and old. Bottom line is, it is time to get back to basics.
James and I got rid of our cable television over a month ago and that has been so freeing. In these past 6 weeks, I have studied the Bible more, read more books, cleaned house, made dinners, and spent more time on the floor reading & playing with Connor. The logical next step was to delete my other time waster-Facebook. So, for now, this blog and our Shutterfly Site (connorjkillian.shutterfly.com) are the only online links to the Killian household.
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