oh! time flies! -- a quick reflection on FB

So I just logged on and realized that I haven't posted anything in a MONTH! How did that happen? Time really flies when you are having fun have too much to do. I have so many things I want to blog about, but I just haven't had to time to put all the thoughts down to share :( That's not to say that I won't, but I just don't know when (probably next weekend) since every time I seem to have time, I remember I have something else to do. And on top of that, some of the things I want to blog about are time-sensitive (and if not, I feel silly blogging about them now because they seem unimportant). But maybe I'll still get around to them...

So until I actually get around to typing up all those crazy thoughts I have in my head, this will have to suffice.

In 5 days, I get control of FB account again. 6 weeks zipped right past. Did I learn anything? YES! Am I going to ever do it again? possibly yes/possibly no...mainly because not only did I learn how little I actually needed FB, I also realized how integrated it is into our lives. To be honest, I've made a better effort to communicate with people without that huge form of social media -- though, I was still on twitter and tumblr. I wrote more emails, called/texted/skyped people (but I did just realized I never actually got around to talking to 2 people I'm been meaning to talk to...oops!) However, the BIG thing was realizing how many more hours a day I had if I didn't use FB. That being said, I ALSO learned, that society nowadays doesn't really work in the absence of FB. It was harder to keep up with popular trends, new developments in people's lives, and et etera (mainly because no one thinks of how they should communicate with people not on FB anymore -- thought that may have been my own fault, since I didn't really tell people I'd be off FB but kept the account active so people could still write on my wall and tag me in things). There's a natural and accepted assumption that everyone can find out everything from FB so we don't/won't need to use other forms of communication.

So yes, going without FB was a good thing, but not having it at all really doesn't work either (well, at least until the "next big thing" comes around, I guess). Nonetheless, the really strange thing was I realized I really, truly did not need FB at all. I didn't really miss it. Over the past 6 weeks, I didn't try to access my account. I didn't need to because FB is actually not important enough for me to use it as much I have been using it. Yes, it was inconvenient not having access to it, but I learned it was such a small thing that I had managed to make a big thing. So here's to hoping that I can take what I learned and sign into my FB account significantly less than I did before cutting myself off from it entirely for the past 6 weeks. Time really is better spent elsewhere. Maybe, just maybe, I'll reach the happy medium of using FB they way Mark Zuckerberg originally intended and not the complete-and-total-time-consuming-procrastination-technique the vast majority of us have managed to make it become.