I cancelled my Facebook account today.

[Hekate]

43. I just stopped going a year and a half ago and have not been back.

The proximate cause was my anti-vaxxer issues-with-her-mother daughter blocked me. Since looking at my grandkids that way made me feel like the Little Match Girl in a Hans Christian Andersen story, pressing my nose against a window, I figured I'd just let my SIL give me the news since she is connected to everyone. Hey, I got a phone call for Mother's Day and we had two of the boys for an overnight during their Spring vacation, so not all is lost.

Aside from that, I was dissatisfied with FB already. It's an incredible time-suck. The "news" goes by so fast I can never find a way to get back where I was -- I feel like a rock in a rushing stream watching the leaves whirl by. I would much much rather read the Los Angeles Times or come on DU. The pace is slower, the news more thorough and more reliable.

I was invited to join Pantsuit Nation, and was overwhelmed with the incoming messages, few of which seemed to have anything to do with fixing the political mess we are in, with a preponderance of feel-good stuff. A lot of us thought since it was named for Hillary Clinton.... Hm?

Some old colleagues got in touch, sort of, but when I told them to please email me as I did not trust FB with really personal info ("How are you, Hekate?" -- "Well, since you ask, I am deeply mired in regret and depression, but I don't feel like telling the whole effing world about it. So please email me, you have the address." No I didn't broadcast that negative info. So far, crickets.)

That's the personal stuff. But FB has done zero since 2016 to inspire me with trust. It's infested with trolls from one end to the other. The last most personal straw for me was learning that the anti-vaxxer mommy groups are being targeted by Russian trolls -- because why the hell not, it's a wedge issue.

The thing with Nancy Pelosi is just the frosting on the crap cake. Jeff Zuckerberg is not our friend. He created a product that people just adore and get really hooked on. But he takes no responsibility for the results. None. He's a genius in his field, but he's just another effing sociopath.