{"id":17734,"date":"2016-10-30T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17734"},"modified":"2016-10-30T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:02:11","slug":"pondering-a-facebook-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17734","title":{"rendered":"Pondering a Facebook decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Facebook-like-button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17735\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Facebook-like-button-300x112.png\" alt=\"facebook-like-button\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Facebook-like-button-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Facebook-like-button-768x286.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Facebook-like-button.png 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t cause me to suffer any heartburn &#8212; proverbial or real &#8212; but it is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pondering whether to take an extended break from Facebook. I&#8217;m writing this post on my blog, but it will go to Facebook as well, which brings me to my point.<\/p>\n<p>I am addicted to blogging. I also have become addicted to Facebook. I don&#8217;t mind spending the time it takes to write these messages on High Plains Blogger. I do get a bit annoyed with the time I&#8217;m spending on Facebook reading responses to these posts.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the back-and-forth that occasionally ensues.<\/p>\n<p>They wear me out. I don&#8217;t have the emotional stamina or energy to engage my friends\/&#8221;friends&#8221; ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t get too deeply into the other things that annoy me about Facebook: the profanity, the nonsense, the hate.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet made up my mind. Other members of my family have declared their desire to do the same after the election. I might join them in their Facebook moratorium. Or &#8230;. I might not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep pounding out these messages on my blog. I do not want to wean myself of this particular fix. It&#8217;s too much fun.<\/p>\n<p>If I make the big decision &#8212; and cure myself of the heartburn in the process &#8212; and forgo Facebook for a time, then I&#8217;ll just ask those interested in reacting to these blog posts to do so on the &#8220;reply&#8221; tab attached to the bottom of those posts.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see one here. Let me know if you think I&#8217;m all wet.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shouldn&#8217;t cause me to suffer any heartburn &#8212; proverbial or real &#8212; but it is. I&#8217;m pondering whether to take an extended break from Facebook. I&#8217;m writing this post on my blog, but it will go to Facebook as well, which brings me to my point. I am addicted to blogging. I also have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pondering a Facebook decision<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[669,1676,4300],"class_list":["post-17734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-political-news","tag-blogger","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17736,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions\/17736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}