I am increasingly thinking about deleting Facebook or at least blocking certain friends from commenting on my posts and hiding other posts.🐡 I fully understand the advantage of Facebook – it’s where everybody is at on the Internet – but I’ve increasingly gotten annoyed with all of the political posts and how people are dragging me into the politics of the day. I don’t even like politics but people say such stupid shit on Facebook. Facebook is a modern day swamp!🐸

For many years I banned comments on my blog. This was intentional. I’ve always preferred the long format for blogging, the greater effort it takes to compose one’s thoughts. Facebook and Twitter encourage sound bites, not reasoned discussions of the issues.😡 Facebook also encourages the spreading of elite opinion without commentary, which I think is a problem. Why should the political elite rule our political discussion? Why can’t average people give their opinions and evaluate things based on what they know?

It really is boring and uninteresting to repeat the rhetoric of one’s own political party without analysis or discussion. That’s the norm on Facebook. Echo chambers are boring, they are all but pointless. 😲What’s wrong with criticizing your own political party when you think they are doing the wrong thing? What? Because the other side might win a point or two? Are you insecure about the convictions of your own political party that all you can do is mindlessly repeat their rhetoric like a drone?