I spend plenty of time on my computer, even though I am here in glorious France. It’s just a fact of modern life, and there it is. I have streamlined the whole process though, removing myself from myriad pointless e-mail lists and being quite selective with my regular websites to check. I’m not so extreme as to not check my e-mail, but I don’t want to spend any more time on it than strictly necessary.
Same with facebook.
<Here is where I restrain myself from delivering a diatribe about the hateful layout of that website (made exponentially worse by my low-grade netbook).>
Suffice it to say that checking facebook is a pretty painful process, and having the homepage clogged up with irrelevance slows me down. So! I am just this very moment about to embark on a facebook friend cull (FFC). I recently crested the 400 mark – maybe that is some sort of threshold? – because all of the sudden I am really seeing how much of the updates I am forced to at least glance at are not just uninteresting but things I actively do not want to read. And then I realize that those posts often come from people I would not be comfortable greeting if I were to see them in person.
Culling possessions is an important exercise to do when traveling. And now we can add a new age twist to that same wisdom.
