So I am currently on a self- ban of Facebook. When I first joined FB in 2007, I relished the fact that I could secretly view the pictures of people I hadn't seen or spoken to in 10-20 years... I viewed every single picture that every single one of my 200 or so "friends" had posted, no matter how grand or mundane.
Within the past year or two, probably 75% of my Facebook friends have had children and/or are pregnant with first, second or third children. I get that; I am turning 32 in November, that is the phase of life we are all in right now. But after our second m/c in January, and quite a few views of different friends' newborn baby albums on FB, I decided I couldn't take it anymore. It seemed like the people who just posted wedding pictures six months ago were already announcing that they were going to become parents! Why do they get to have it happen so quickly and we have to wait for so long? Then we start the judging ...."there's no way those two could have a baby, they are so not ready", "they aren't even married two months and she's three months pregnant?!"...it goes on from there...
First, I only blocked specific friends' news feeds to avoid pop up pictures of newly obtained U/S pictures. Still not enough- we had to cut the FB monster out completely. I have been FB sober now for about 6 weeks and I may fall off the wagon soon. I sort of feel lost without it.... but on the up side, I have gotten about 3 hours of my daily life back. Wonder what I can do with all that time...
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