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i did it again. facebook, i deactivated it.
and then i read good stuff and want to share good things and i think of facebook but it’s deactivated so what now?
i used to blog. what happened to the long form? tweets and status updates are replacing long prose and well thought-out arguments that you have to walk from, and you have to walk a while. like don miller says, you feel like running but life is on a stroll, and this is how god does things.
skye jethani is bald. he lives in chicago and he spoke at my church last summer. i still remember something he said. “we all need witnesses,” he said, so we feel that our life matters. this is why we facebook. this is why we tweet. this is why we blog. we not only want our lives to matter, we want to know that we’re being heard. i don’t think this is selfish. it’s very possible for facebook to become a means for narcissism, and perhaps the very medium of self-edited profile pics, untagging ourselves from unflattering photos, telling the world what we’re doing and when and how, bends itself towards that, but there’s something deeply human about just wanting to be heard, to be known.
a while ago i was reading a psychology text and it said that the human personality has a natural inclination to reveal itself, and that when that inclination is blocked and we’re closed off from others, we experience “emotional difficulties.”
“emotional difficulties” sounds like something to put in the do not like it one bit column, if anybody is making lists.
bless the africans who have no internet, who live in community always, but not in order to live in community; it’s simply their way of life—interdependence.
anyway, i deactivated my facebook indefinitely. maybe i’ll be back tomorrow.
