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Facebook Getting In The Way Of Happiness

From an article someone else wrote:

“Think back to the last time you spent the day doing better things than checking your notifications. Didn’t it feel like a great weight lifting from not only your thumb and index finger, but also your soul?

That feeling is no coincidence. Spending less time on Facebook might be just as important for your health as eating right. Social media’s got its place for staying in touch, but it’s become so much more — and so much less — thanks to ad saturation, oversharers, and idiots in their natural habitat.

Over the years, many studies have shown that Facebook is running you down mentally, and this past year saw a boom in “Facebook is bad for you” research. Now if only you could just… deactivate… that account…”

To read the rest of the article, click here:

https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/why-facebook-is-bad-for-you

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Trend of going without Facebook

I am happily off of Facebook. I’ve never been trendy, but I’m noticing that it’s become a trend in society to avoid Facebook.

I went without a phone for the first half of the 1990s in the wilderness of Alaska. I learned to adapt. I can easily go without a social media site.

Facebook? We don’t need no steenkin’ Facebook!

The following link is an article on some people’s choices to leave Facebook:

https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/18/tech/social-media/facebook-deactivation-ireport/index.html