Meta-less-phosis?
I tried, but it just doesn’t work, does it?
Facebook has come back into my life. I thought I’d cancelled it months ago, but then I was invited to connect with a group of people who … suggested Facebook. Not WhatsApp or Instagram or any of the rest, but old-school Facebook.
So I clicked on “create an account” and gave it a different email address and did everything short of inventing a fake me to get a simple new account for connection purposes only.
But no. “Welcome back to Facebook!” and “Enter your account recovery code here!” Facebook saw through my puny attempts to create — how shall I put this? — a meta-me.
I … hesitated. But then I thought: why does this matter? I want the connection, so get that and never mind the rest.
And then I thought: fix it. Go on, while you’re there, fix it!
And now I’ve found a new way to waste my time.
I delete friends. I spend the time I used to waste on social media deleting friends — sorry, “friends”.
As of five minutes ago, I’m down to my last 2,000 (yes, two thousand) total strangers who self-identify (Facebook-identify) as friends of mine.
Granted, they turn up as “People you might know” just as soon as I’ve deleted them, but that’s just AI, isn’t it?
And who needs that?
