{"id":2363,"date":"2011-12-13T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:20","slug":"a-head-of-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/12\/a-head-of-my-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Head of My Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it really be that I <em>anticipated<\/em> a trend?\u00a0 In my July 26, 2011 post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=1243\">Unreal<\/a>&#8220;, I wrote:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I choose not to post comments on my Facebook page anymore.\u00a0 It is a  reflection of our time that I even need to explain this.\u00a0 About the same  as if I had said, 30 years ago, that I don&#8217;t watch TV.\u00a0 Or, 50 years  ago, that I like to play with dolls.\u00a0 Facebook is the new conformity.<\/h5>\n<p>And now, The New York Times published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/14\/technology\/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html\">this article<\/a> about so-called &#8220;rebels&#8221; who choose not to participate in Facebook.\u00a0 One excerpt:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Will Brennan, a 26-year-old Brooklyn resident, said [his] friends are not always sympathetic to his anti-social-media stance.\u00a0 \u201cI get asked to sign up at least twice a month,\u201d said Mr. Brennan. \u201cI  get harangued for ruining their plans by not being on Facebook.\u201d\u00a0 And whether there is haranguing involved or not, the rebels say their  no-Facebook status tends to be a hot topic of conversation \u2014 much as a  decision not to own a television might have been in an earlier media  era.<\/h5>\n<p>Someone out there is channelling my blog.\u00a0 I say, channelling, because so few of you are actually reading it.\u00a0 Too busy on Facebook, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it really be that I anticipated a trend?\u00a0 In my July 26, 2011 post &#8220;Unreal&#8220;, I wrote: I choose not to post comments on my Facebook page anymore.\u00a0 It is a reflection of our time that I even need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/12\/a-head-of-my-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}