25/01/2025
Quitting Facebook
I have not been posting much on Facebook recently due to growing concerns about the increasingly worthless, dangerous and unpleasant content and harmful, divisive cultural effect of the platform. Facebooks recent decision to end all fact-checking efforts to appease a certain someone has been the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
I do not wish to contribute to / consume a social media platform that farms all responsibility for standards of truth, veracity and civilized discourse on their site on to users any more than I want to frequent a public restroom whose proprietor farms all responsibility for hygiene and cleaning on to the users. If that’s where you want to go, Facebook, then I and my content – trivial and inconsequential as it may be – are not coming along.
There is probably little point or principle served in trying to purge this profile and I would hate to do so as it is the only record of a very prolific period that even managed to garner more than 4K of likes and followers (and I thank you for that if you are one). But I am not going to post new content or interact on it and I will basically put it into hibernation, hoping that maybe one day saner management will make it a better place to be.
If you originally came here for my occasional dives into cruise history, those will continue over on the Cruiseinsider.dk blog – hope to see you there!
Stay safe everyone!
