I updated my Facebook — by deleting everything and locking the account!
I used to have a pretty big FB account when I worked on the OpenSolaris project at Sun Microsystems years ago. And the application was mildly useful back then since I had many thousands of connections for work. It wasn’t my main communications platform during OpenSolaris, but it did at least enable me to connect to some of our development communities that used the platform around the world. But after Sun died and OpenSolaris was killed after the Oracle acquisition, I deleted that old FB account. I just had no use for it any longer. And I wasn’t going to just casually switch over to posting about personal issues or the news, which I don’t watch anyway. I have no time for that.
But then years later I (stupidly) opened a new FB account in 2017 for reasons I’ll keep private. This one, though, I really didn’t use much, and I made very little attempt to build it out. I only ended up with about 800 connections. So, it turns out that just opening the damn thing was more of an embarrassment than anything. However, in recent years I’ve found the environment on Facebook too toxic to stomach. So, a few weeks ago I deleted all of my content, including likes and comments, deleted hundreds of connections, and locked the putrid thing shut. I only need it to contact via Messenger with a few family members. I’m connected to so many people on so many social platforms it seems pointless to just pile these things on top of each other forever.S
So, that’s it. I feel a little better now — like slowly recovering from a bad bout of intractable diarrhea. This is part of my “social” purge. I’ve deleted 10 accounts in the last few years, all of which were just poison.