HELP, I'VE FALLEN....

           

It’s hard to believe, but I guess I have a brand-new best friend and it’s not the human kind. I came to the realization just yesterday that I’m spending way too much time on my phone…and it isn’t talking to anyone!!! In fact, it’s Facebook!!!

          I honestly don’t know quite how this happened, but I’m spending way too much time on Facebook. It seems like only recently I would spend maybe thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening looking at stuff on FB. Somehow, I’ve, or quite possibly FB has changed all that and I’m spending way too much time staring at that small screen.

          In an effort to save you, dear reader, from this potential time-wasting exercise, here’s how it happened to me. I found a column about Moose the Great Dane…his owner writes wonderful and very funny stories about all of the things Moose does. I also think, if all the stories are true, that Moose has to cost her a ton of money.

          That Moose led to another Moose, this time a German Shepherd who, according to his owner, doesn’t even have one brain cell. Still, the stories she (or he) writes, are funny and make me laugh.

          Those two would have been plenty, but I love to look at the reels that are offered and therein lies the problem I created for myself. Somehow, I managed to like or follow a country-western singer named Cooper Alan. This man is a prolific writer and performer. It now seems like he’s posting one song after another. And, they are good and I enjoy them, so I listen.

          Then, somehow, I must have liked or followed a stand-up comic. Now I’m getting stand up routines for an additional two, and maybe more, stand-up folks. I like to laugh, so I watched and listened and laughed.

          This is what’s led to my spending way more than an hour a day on my phone on Facebook. This has to stop. It also makes me wonder if there is some AI involved as in FB figured out what I liked and is thereby providing me with the very things I like and that make me laugh. I’m now convinced some of this content that’s wooed me into way more time than I want to give has to be AI.

          But, you know, there’s only one remedy for falling down this rabbit (or AI) hole and that’s to put the phone down and continue with stuff that doesn’t require I squint at a screen for more than that thirty-minutes twice a day. It’s my new goal, or old one actually, and I’ll let you know how it does…maybe you could cross your fingers (or eyes) for me.