Zenith

It is a good job I didn’t resolve on January the first to update here on a more committed basis. So far, it looks like 2012 will have the same random regularity as 2011. That’s not to say it won’t change, in fact I’m planning that it will. I have set myself some goals and targets for the New Year.

So far, this year I haven’t had an alcoholic drink. Its only two weeks but I’m happy with my little achievement. Unfortunately, for that habit at least, I’m going on holiday in a couple of days so that won’t last much longer.

I’ve also set myself some writing objectives that, if anyone is interested, I will keep you up to date with as they happen. In the mean time I just need to get on with it. So let’s do that shall we.

A friend of mine, whose opinion I have some respect for, tells me that my Blog is better when I’m not talking about me. He prefers when I pick a subject and talk about that rather than discuss how my life is going. I’m generally inclined to agree with him, but it could be just that this friend doesn’t like people sharing their lives online. This argument is backed up by his disdain for Facebook.

He hates it, refuses to have it. Well, he did have it for a while but was so abhorred by people ranking themselves and their friends, poking, tagging and all that other nonsense that he got rid of it. I’ve decided I’m going to try and follow suit.

I’m not a hater of Facebook. For a long time I’ve enjoyed its usage. Setting up my account in 2007 to keep in touch with my friends off on their travels I found it an excellent tool. I took advantage of the games and the quizzes as a way to pass the time and when I was trapped in employment hell Facebook was a window to the outside world.

But at this stage I’m a little bored with it. And let me say to my Friends, it’s not you it’s me. Most of the stuff that appears on my newsfeed these days is from organisations, bands or charities or businesses. If it’s not that it’s somebody pointlessly complaining about the state of this or that. As a regular ranter about both I know that this is completely futile and I hate to see intelligent people like yourselves wasting your time.

The thing is, I’m a five year Zuckerberg addict. I’m under no illusion that quitting ‘the book’ is going to be easy. So I’ve started to wean myself away. My status changes are infrequent, especially when compared to the last days of Meteor when I would update twice maybe three times a day. If I do that a week now, it’s a busy one

I have deleted most of my photos. I don’t think there is anything really wrong with sharing your snaps with friends but you have to question the validity of a lot of them. Memories are to be captured not posed. How can you really show the world what a good time you had when you are spending most of your time deleting and retaking that perfect profile pic.

I’ve hidden a lot the stuff I follow. By my reckoning, at this rate I will only have a few updates a day and trick myself into believing that everyone else is kicking the habit. So eventually, in a few months I might be ready to take that final big leap and delete my account. Although it has its uses, I let a lot of people know about my blog through Facebook, so I’ll have to find a way around it.

Some of you are probably thinking if I’m serious why don’t I just delete it now?’ Others might be of the opinion that I won’t be able to quit, that I’m an addict, that I can’t live without Facebook. Well I’ve seen people who quit cold turkey and they just come back worse than ever before. That’s not going to be me. I’m going to do it right.