{"id":3839,"date":"2021-11-29T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/facebooks-lame-attempts-to-grab-my-attention-make-it-clear-its-time-to-leave-eleanor-margolis\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:47:58","slug":"facebooks-lame-attempts-to-grab-my-attention-make-it-clear-its-time-to-leave-eleanor-margolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/facebooks-lame-attempts-to-grab-my-attention-make-it-clear-its-time-to-leave-eleanor-margolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s lame attempts to grab my attention make it clear: it\u2019s time to leave | Eleanor Margolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clicking on my profile page is like entering a time machine to 2010. It\u2019s not a place I want to be<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 2am and, for the past hour, I\u2019ve been reliving an entire decade of my life. As far as I can tell, it was a phenomenally stupid decade. If my Facebook pictures are anything to go by, I spent all of uni honking my friends\u2019 boobs and putting things on my head. I then spent my early- to mid-20s dressed stupidly, in the company of a lot of people I now can barely remember. My God, the Hat Phase. There I am in a fedora at Pride; skinnier and better-looking, but clearly having a hard time establishing my \u201clook\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is the longest I\u2019ve spent on Facebook in about four years. Finally, I\u2019ve decided to delete it. In my 30s, it\u2019s started to stress me out that my profile still exists. Drunk pictures of me on display for people I haven\u2019t thought about in a decade. Whatever teenage me saw worthy of a status update just out there<\/em>, searchable, findable, obscured only by privacy settings that I don\u2019t fully understand.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Margolis is a columnist for the i newspaper and Diva<\/p>\n

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\nClicking on my profile page is like entering a time machine to 2010. It\u2019s not a place I want to be
\nIt\u2019s 2am and, for the past hour, I\u2019ve been reliving an entire decade of my life. As far as I can tell, it was a phenomenally stupid decade. If my Facebook pictures are anything to go by, I spent all of uni honking my friends\u2019 boobs and putting things on my head. I then spent my early- to mid-20s dressed stupidly, in the company of a lot of people I now can barely remember. My God, the Hat Phase. There I am in a fedora at Pride; skinnier and better-looking, but clearly having a hard time establishing my \u201clook\u201d.
\nThis is the longest I\u2019ve spent on Facebook in about four years. Finally, I\u2019ve decided to delete it. In my 30s, it\u2019s started to stress me out that my profile still exists. Drunk pictures of me on display for people I haven\u2019t thought about in a decade. Whatever teenage me saw worthy of a status update just out there, searchable, findable, obscured only by privacy settings that I don\u2019t fully understand.
\nEleanor Margolis is a columnist for the i newspaper and Diva Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clicking on my profile page is like entering a time machine to 2010. It\u2019s not a place I want to be It\u2019s 2am and, for the past hour, I\u2019ve been reliving an entire decade of my life. As far as I can tell, it was a phenomenally stupid decade. If my Facebook pictures are anything …<\/p>\n

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