Hi. My name’s Kyle and, really, I’m nobody special. For a while now I’ve had a growing concern about the effects that social media was having on me, and my soul. The compulsion to check my feed constantly. The quest for “likes”. The ways in which it can so easily serve as a hair trigger for outrage.

I also was becoming increasingly bothered by the idea of Facebook’s complete ownership and intrusive mining of the content I was posting, along with their recently stated intent to partner with banks in order to gain access to Facebook users’ financial and spending data. Many years ago I kept my own weblog, but abandoned it for the convenience of simply using Facebook’s platform, since 99% of the people I know are there. I think it’s time to go retro.

So this site is a first step in disengaging from the hive mind. If my current thinking holds, I’ll be moving completely away from Facebook and deleting my account at some point in the coming months. I realize that doing so would make me a bit of a digital hermit. But that’s OK. In fact, I think it may even be good.

In the interim, I’ll be doing my posting here, and creating links for at least some of those posts over at Facebook.

Welcome to the blog!