EXPUNGED

In case you’re wondering where I vanished to on Facebook, the answer is this: I’m taking a break from it for a while. Nothing particularly emo or anything, but the layer of abstraction that I formerly maintained between the Internet, other friends, colleagues, and my actual life has blurred a bit too much.

I de-friended all the people that I only know from the Internet, as well as those who I haven’t spoken to since high school (no offense if you fall into the former category, tough titty if the latter). I kept family and colleagues and rl friends on there, but for all practical purposes, I’ve abandoned the site.

I had briefly considered creating a second facebook account so I could maintain the constitutionally-prescribed separation of dick jokes and family/coworkers, but –nah. Truth is, I’ve never really liked facebook. Maybe someday facebook will do a redesign that more adequately allows me to compartmentalize various segments of my life. Until then…