Why You Will Never Catch Me Signing Up for Facebook

Few things interest me less than the social media trends of things like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.

I have a hard enough time keeping up with what's going on in my own life and work; I have no capacity to deal with being simultaneously inundated with the minutiae (be it happy, sad, important or trivial) of what is going on in a multitude of other peoples' lives; especially via impersonal broadcast methods.  I just don't see the point (apart from the use of such social media technology to help protestors organize in countries with oppressive regimes where it is hard to freely mass-communicate - that seems like the only good use of these tools).

But it's the (hopefully unintended?) consequences of posts that make Facebook questionable in my mind.  Similar to how e-mails can be misinterpreted, people can read a lot into the meaning behind the frequency, focus, and content of posts and pictures.   All too often, posts and comments can serve to put emotional distance between people, rather than bring them together.  Facebook should come with a warning "Use With Care."  But it doesn't.  And people don't.

Todo bien.