The Long Way Home 1.17.25
In 2004, W. was re-elected President and Facebook was unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Both had a profound effect on the world and my mental health, but only one is still around. I created my Facebook account in 2008, when Bush was leaving the stage. A young chap named Zuckerberg—Zuck for short—was on his way to making billions as Facebook succeeded in garnering eyeballs and clicks beyond his wildest dreams. Over the last 17 years, I’ve spent some time most days looking at Facebook. At first, I added our offspring and other family as “Friends.” Then I started looking up friends and business connections from a previous life and inviting them to be “Friends.” Unlike some, I wasn’t aggressive in expanding my Facebook network. I seem to have enough interaction with 382 friends and a few groups to keep me going. Recently, Zuck, dressed in the geeky bling and garb we’ve come to expect, announced that he was ending what he calls “fact-checking” from his online empire. Some in t...