{"id":748,"date":"2010-01-07T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:55:50","slug":"simplifying-and-cutting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/simplifying-and-cutting-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying and Cutting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

I deleted my Facebook Account yesterday.<\/p>\n

It was terrifying and exhilarating all at the same time.<\/p>\n

See, I hate Facebook! Well, hate might be too strong a word, but I’ve disliked Facebook almost since the day that I signed up. <\/p>\n

And why did I sign up for something that I didn’t really like, even at the time?<\/p>\n

Good Question?<\/p>\n

My honest answer, “Because everyone else was doing it!<\/em>” <\/p>\n

Apparently I’m just a lemming.<\/p>\n

I hate getting notifications of group invitations and knowing who’s got a fish tank or who is playing Farmville or who is as sexy as Edward Cullen. I don’t want to know what type of personality you are or to even have friend suggestions for people I don’t know.<\/p>\n

It was ego boosting to have people “friend” me at the beginning, but then there were people that I didn’t want to necessarily be “found” by and then what? Do I accept them? Do I reject them? or do I ignore them? It gets messy! I hate messy!<\/p>\n

In the end, Facebook was a place where I felt like I was stalking. Ya know, signing in to see what everyone else was up to without ever contributing to the “Facebook world” and really….that’s just HUGE waste of my personal time and so…..POOF! I’m no longer there. Which for me means…..no more time wasted ((cough)on that site!(cough)<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I do still have my Twitter account and really that was the only part of Facebook that I really liked (the status updates<\/em>) and although I haven’t twitted\/tweeted (Whatever!!!)…..I haven’t posted a tweet in a while…..I’m hoping that I can – figuratively – OOOOMPH my tired behind off the couch that it’s been parked on and get back to seeing the funny side of life.<\/p>\n

I love to update the silly stuff my kids say. For example, Siah pulled this one outta the air the other day. <\/p>\n

“Yesterday, I was younger than J.J.”<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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He’s two, people, how does he even know what “yesterday” means let alone that he was younger. It was all used properly in context and was said as if now, NOW, he was much older than Jeremy.<\/p>\n

Obviously we have an incorrect grasp on age, but still….so SO cute coming from his little tiny voice piping outta the back seat of the van and said to no one in particular (he was chattering to himself while we were driving<\/em>)!<\/p>\n

Anyway, anyone who really needs to contact me has my e-mail address or else, we’re not really that close, are we?<\/p>\n

I’ll admit, it did feel a bit like I was cutting myself off from a huge section of the world, but really…..am I leaving a part of the world? or am I taking a step forward into my reality?<\/p>\n

Questions? Questions?<\/p>\n

Only time will tell…………<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I deleted my Facebook Account yesterday. It was terrifying and exhilarating all at the same time. See, I hate Facebook! Well, hate might be too strong a word, but I’ve disliked Facebook almost since the day that I signed up. And why did I sign up for something that I didn’t really like, even at … Continue reading “Simplifying and Cutting Back”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,33,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap","category-deep-thoughts","category-life","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}