Just a reminder: it’s not just advertisers who can quit Facebook. Delete your account. It’s a refreshing and mentally restorative act. It’s not necessary in your life, I promise. Folks keep lingering in that toxic space for idealized relationships that don’t actually exist.

If you were *actually* close with all those people, you wouldn’t hesitate to walk away. Instead you’ve convinced yourself that meaning exists in a toxic hellhole of a digital space. It doesn’t. If it did, y’all would exchange phone numbers.

But Kate, I have to keep one for work.
Do you? Does it have to be as personalized as your current profile? Or can you delete your account and create a work profile with zero information that Zuckerberg can harvest and sell?

I deleted my FB account when MZ testified in front of Congress the first time. I haven’t missed it at all. My friends and family are still in my life.
Everyone else? Well...they faded away into the lovely memories I had of them when they were present in my life. That’s NORMAL.

Hoarding personal connections with people you knew for a day, a week or a month? That’s....bizarre. But FB will convince you it’s normal and necessary.

It ain’t.

You do not, as much as you would like, have 845 friends.

You have 4. That’s NORMAL.