Night Owl Cards

  Maybe it's the start of the year, but I feel the urge to leave the social media scene more and more. I don't consider blogging part of that. It's separate for me. But I deleted Twitter/X two months ago and I think Facebook will be coming next. I know a lot of folks deleted Facebook a long time ago, I get it. I've stayed because of connections to people who mean something to me in my life. But as some of them leave the app themselves, there's less there for me to see and the recent news that the site is about to enter an even wilder scene than it already has isn't encouraging me to stay (I have never relied on Facebook for news, I have a journalism degree for crying out loud).   I never joined Instagram or TikTok, so if/when Facebook leaves, all that will be left is Bluesky . (There's also Discord, but I'm not on that much).   For now, Bluesky is pretty delightful. Part of me expects it to go to pot eventually like it seems every social site does, but I...

Facebook. What a disaster. I've been a participant for five years now but have always navigated it like walking through a questionable neighborhood after dark. Why are the people that I thought I knew so weird on here? Why do they love wine, cats and guns so much? Why do they sound like my 78-year-old uncle railing about the government? And how do these ads know what I like to buy? With the hearings on Capitol Hill, I still don't know exactly what Facebook is accused of doing (and please don't tell me), but it kind of looks like the beginning of the end for the media platform. Actually, I thought the beginning of the end started about two years ago when people became noticeably more grim and annoying in their posting. It made me miss the relatively lighthearted, nonsensical days of Facebook. Farmville and all that garbage. I didn't participate in any of it, but who didn't enjoy watching video of someone pouring a large bucket of ice water on their head? T...