I can finally check my Facebook news feed whenever I want again.
Over the past three weeks I've had to
avoid any sort of social media between the hours of 8am and, say,
10pm, the time I finished watching the Tour de France race from that particular day. I avoided social media because, well,
I didn't want to know who won that day's race. Call me old
fashioned, but on occasion I actually enjoy watching a movie or a
sporting event and NOT knowing how it's gonna end.
I know; freaky, isn't it?
At first I thought I could just turn
off a few news sources, such as BBC News or any of the French TV networks that I follow, but after being burned on a couple of the stages by
people I know talking about what happened during the race that I
DVR'd while I was at work, I just decided not to pay any attention to
Facebook until I had watched that day's leg and could safely venture
back into the real world. And you know what I discovered?
I really didn't miss it that much!
I don't know if that says something
about me or something about Facebook (or both), but my life didn't
implode because I wasn't staring at my news feed. I don't think I
missed out on anything important, and even if I did miss out on
something it couldn't have been THAT important, right? So surprise,
surprise...you CAN live a life without social media.
Especially if you have something like
not knowing who won that day's leg of the Tour de France to look
forward to!
(ps—remember yesterday how I wrote
about being a bit perplexed by not seeing any Nevada license plates
during my week-long survey of them, which ended Sunday? Well, guess
what I saw TWO of on my walk home from work last night?
Go figure...)
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