“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.”

Social media is not about connection or keeping in touch. It’s about displaying ones life and getting gratification from external validation. It’s about validating people you don’t know by idolizing the small snapshot of the part of their lives they choose to show. It’s about building a social brand more than anything else and that’s exhausting. Today, I pulled the plug on all Meta apps. Facebook is dead and has really been on life support for years. I never posted anything to Instagram I hadn’t posted to Facebook anyway, and Meta is not a moral company, especially since they removed moderation and fact checking. Hell, 4-chan has moderation on most of its threads. Facebook is grosser than 4-chan. That’s gross.

We don’t need the distraction in our lives or, at least, I don’t need it in mine. Contentment comes from accepting life as it is and appreciating those in it. Sure, we loose touch with people. That’s how life works. In the days when one didn’t travel more than two miles from the site of their birth, it was easier to keep in touch, but the community you choose is different now. We can walk away, in and out of people’s lives, and the presence is more meaningful because it is fleeting. Social media and the “interconnected” nightmare of Facebook was not true connection, it was stagnation.

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu