Oh my LAWWWWWWWDDDD!!!!!!

I am horrendously embarrassed about the amount of time I spent on Facebook.  Just sayin'. 

We The People....

Today is the first day of a new year!  Day one on life's next scheduled "do over".  The day we all wait for to start again... start fresh!  So I have decided to start my new year off a little less "connected" than I was in previous years.  It was brought to my attention... many times... that I spend too much time on my phone.  Not talking....  (duh) no one talks on their phones anymore.  I was an abuser of texting, emailing, app searching and the worst....  Facebooking.  

When I started to notice the comments, I heard things like...
"Mom, what are you doing? ...oh, are you on Facebook?"
"Mom, Mom.... Mommy..... Ma......  UGH!  You are always on Facebook."
"Mom, DONT post that to facebook!!!"
"Oh....  let me guess.... Facebook?"

Besides the comments that I received from my 9 year old I noticed a few other things as well.  One of them being the negativity on there was sucking the will to live right out of every fiber of my being.  Ok, ok....  it wasn't that dramatic, but I am sure you get the idea.  Obviously we live in a country that was founded on such basic human rights like Freedom of Speech.  Well, to be honest, I am not sure our founding fathers really would have thrown that one in there if they had any idea Social Media would be a main component of communication.  The things people post are often funny, silly, smart, motivational, exciting....  but then there are the others.....

Dark, uneducated, angry, threatening, negative and the very worst...... STUPID!  And the more stupid things people post, the more aggravated you get.  They say that you NEVER, EVER discuss Religion, Politics or Sex on a first date.  I believe that those same rules need to be applied to FB as well.  But alas...  the Freedom of Speech thingy has enabled every jackass with a smart phone, computer or digital device to be able to spew all of their nonsense on to Social Media site that in turn has leaked into and all over my "newsfeed".  So what can I do?   Bow out.  I surrender. 

Of course there are other not so drastic ways, and of course I can limit the craziness and the will-to-live Sucker-outters but I needed a break anyway to detox from the need to constantly connect.  So what did I do with my first day FB Free?  Well....

I realized that my kid may have had a point.  I lost count of how many times I opened the lap top and then realized I had nothing to actually do.  How many times I just found myself with my phone in my hand staring at it....  looking for the FB app.  (Which I deleted from my iPhone)  How many times I had a random funny thought and thought.. "I should post that".   I made soup tonight and I literally thought "Oh, I am so updating my status to tell the world what I did".  WTF?!?!  I have issues.

So instead I played games with my kid, chatted about school starting tomorrow, planned our week, visited with my mom when she stopped by.... and just basically hung out.  Disconnected.  And I loved it.  You know who loved it more?  The Teagster. 

So I am excited to see how my disconnection helps me reconnect.  Stay tuned.