Facebook has gotten labyrinthine and arcane. It’s almost impossible to find your settings, or your privacy settings. And just try finding a list of the things you’ve “liked” over the past few years.
I finally cleaned out my list. Cereal companies! Pasta-sauce companies! Actors and actresses I liked in a couple of movies!
Most of all, however, it’s left-wing detritus. I’m left-wing myself, and (like everyone else) I like being told that I’m correct in my beliefs, and that the other side of the aisle is crazy. But people like Keith Olbermann are so shrill! Olbermann is our Limbaugh: a hectoring name-caller. He reposted a silly thing back in February or March about Rick Santorum being a porn addict, which was widely attacked and which he withdrew, lamely saying that it was “a joke,” and that people had obviously misunderstood.
Also, he posts ten or fifteen times a day. Try that on your Facebook feed. (It used to be your “wall.” Now it’s – what? – your “timeline.” Or whatever. I can’t keep up with the new Facebook language, and I frankly don’t much care.)
Also: Olbermann was fired by his most current employer. He is evidently unbearable. Which is proof positive that you don’t have to be a Republican to be a jerk.
Anyway. Who else have I purged from my Facebook friends? Goodbye, Neil Patrick Harris. Goodbye, Cape Cod Potato Chips. Goodbye, Quaker Oats. Goodbye, some odd anti-Dick Cheney group I must have joined during the Bush administration.
My Facebook feed is slightly less cluttered now.
Now I can read all about my real friends.
Like George Takei.
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