Facebook Fast Guilt

Well, I’m on day 27 of my Facebook fast and doing quite well with it. Then, a friend mentioned that I didn’t even react to their birthday message.

Friends, I did not look at Facebook for the birthday messages on April 21st. And, I did feel some guilt about that. So, last night, I traipsed over to Facebook, and read through the birthday messages.

There were hundreds of the usual fly by happy birthday messages. And there were a few with really touching messages, and it worked on my resolve not to post on facebook.

And, really, it made me feel pretty rude. Which is a good thing to study all on its own and probably further proof that my Facebook fast is a good thing and shining a light on my online activity, purpose for that, and expectations.

I did go and make a post thanking people, because it seemed the right thing to do. It was 6 days after the fact, so they may have seen it and thought…what? Oh yeah, it was Anne’s birthday. Big deal. Or, they may see my post and respond…Oh, I missed your birthday, sorry. Happy Birthday, because now they feel guilty that they missed that notification.

Guilt and more guilt. This is really interesting. And, we haven’t even seen each other.

That’s it for today, friends.

Your friend,
Anne Dovel