The Backroad to Civilization

January 19th, 2025:

I've finally deleted my Facebook account. I'd planned to do it

years ago, but kept it alive solely to communicate with my change-adverse

family and friends, going so far as to pare down my friends list to

roughly 25 people to accomodate the holdouts.

During that time, I realized I only *really* interacted with a small

handful of these 25 folks, so the decision was made to terminate my

account at midnight last night. I gave my family a week's notice, gave

them a list of other (Fediverse) social media platforms I'm on, asked for

• their* contact methods, then pulled the plug.

Two people reached out. I exchanged phone numbers with a semi-local

friend, and exchanged email addresses with an elderly aunt. Suppose the

rest of the family and I will find a way to get in touch if we need.

My Friendica posts are slowly trickling through to the rest of the

Fediverse now... at least to Mastodon. I'm showing posts up 'til January

6th now, so that's good. Posts don't seem to be filtering out to Diaspora

yet, though. I checked, and none of my Friendica posts have reached my

Diaspora account since early December.

Oh well, I'm sure it'll get sorted soon enough.