I did something I thought I wouldn't do today — I took my mostly dormant Facebook account and decided to actually add some people I know as friends, with a mind to maybe starting to use it a little bit again. I've been pretty rigorous about who I've chosen to add, mind — just people who are actual, honest to goodness, real-life friends and family members.
The reason I did this is that after a number of years of being without a Facebook account, it's become all too apparent that a lot of people I know do not venture beyond those "walls" when hanging out with other people online. I take stuff like Twitter, Google Hangouts, Discord and the like for granted because I use them all as part of my daily routine, but not everyone is as "connected" as that — nor do they want to be, nor should they have to be.
So with that in mind, rather than mourning how I don't talk to some people any more or haven't heard from [x] for a while, I thought I'd take a proactive step and actually put myself in a position where I can be reached more easily for those people who don't venture outside of Facebook. And it's been extremely pleasant to have a lovely warm welcome back from a lot of people, many of whom I haven't spoken to for years at this point. It's like we can just pick back up where we left off.
I probably picked a bad time to come back to Facebook what with everything in the world being… as it is right now, but sometimes the desire for human contact overrides irrational thought.
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