Simplification and the News Feed

     These days, we're always being told to simplify.  Simplify your life, simplify your wardrobe, etc.  While not all of the articles which preach the message of simplification offer completely practical, praiseworthy, or necessary advice (like those "get rid of all your clothes and buy all new ones and just have a uniform... for everything... with basically no exceptions; where's the fun and personality in that?), there is still a lot to be said for the general idea.  We live a very complicated life, and there are little things that we can do to make a huge difference overall.
     For instance, I have decided to cleanup my Facebook.  I don't plan to start unfriending people left and right, but I do plan to "unlike" a ton of pages.  Why?  If I remember correctly, "liking" a page wasn't a big deal.  The only result I remember is that it would show up on my "about" page that I liked coffee, U2, hedgehogs, etc.  Now, every time I get on Facebook I am assaulted by this barrage of unimportant, usually unentertaining information that is completely irrelevant to my life and the lives of my friends.  I joined Facebook as a means of being "connected" online with my friends, and to share pictures, not so that I could see a thousand un-funny memes or fifty articles about which "health" foods are carcinogenic.
     I have started tonight by just snoozing almost everything on my feed that was not something one of my friends actually wrote himself/herself, when I realized I should also be unfollowing.  If it works, and the pages actually snooze for thirty days, I will be so excited to see what my feed looks like in a week.  It should take my only a few scrolls to see all the "news" of the day!  A few pages will still be on my "like," list, but as to the others?  I either never read what they share (like Subway-- yes, I like eating sandwiches from Subway, but I don't need to see pictures of subs on my feed), or I only sometimes do.  And if I **GASP** miss one or two interesting things because I unlike everything??  You know what?  I think I'll live, and waste less time.  Besides, I don't exactly struggle to find interesting things.
     Here's to simplifying 2018, one tiny click at a time!