Could it really be that I anticipated a trend? In my July 26, 2011 post “Unreal“, I wrote:
I choose not to post comments on my Facebook page anymore. It is a reflection of our time that I even need to explain this. About the same as if I had said, 30 years ago, that I don’t watch TV. Or, 50 years ago, that I like to play with dolls. Facebook is the new conformity.
And now, The New York Times published this article about so-called “rebels” who choose not to participate in Facebook. One excerpt:
Will Brennan, a 26-year-old Brooklyn resident, said [his] friends are not always sympathetic to his anti-social-media stance. “I get asked to sign up at least twice a month,” said Mr. Brennan. “I get harangued for ruining their plans by not being on Facebook.” And whether there is haranguing involved or not, the rebels say their no-Facebook status tends to be a hot topic of conversation — much as a decision not to own a television might have been in an earlier media era.
Someone out there is channelling my blog. I say, channelling, because so few of you are actually reading it. Too busy on Facebook, perhaps.
Now now Bitterness is not in the holiday spirit Sending you big love, Mr Scrooge