The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
The bus is pulling out and I guess I’d better go
Before I make a grave mistake and let my feelings show
And twenty miles away she waits alone for me
But when I try to picture her you’re the one I see
And in another situation I could put up a fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
So the night is coming down, drowning us in blue
And it all points towards the things we know we shouldn’t do
And as I look at you and I fall under your spell
Well I know I should be thinking of her lying there herself
And when faced with temptation you know a man should stand and fight
But you will be my downfall tonight
Be my downfall be my great regret be the one girl
That I’ll never forget
Be my undoing be my slow road to ruin tonight
So the bus is pulling out and I’m grounded here with you
And I want to say the sweet things babe I’ve always wanted to
So tell me now the tail-lights have gone out of sight
Baby won’t you be my downfall once again tonight
It is nice not feeling obliged to tell the world my business.
It is nice not having people gawp at my pictures.
It is not nice having people stalk me – yes, if people don’t talk to you, but they stay on your list and follow your exploits, that is a form of stalking.
It is nice being a person and not a crappy profile online.
It is nice not to have to cringe every time I log in case I see something in my newsfeed from my ex that I don’t want to see (because I still hadn’t gotten around to deleting him yet.)
I can’t be bothered to look at other people’s profiles – I would rather talk to my 3D friends than their 2D profiles.
I am not forced to look at people’s pics and see how much more fun they are having than me (although most of that is totally fake).
I have seen more of my friends since I left Facebook than I have in a long time. They actually contact me and make time to see me (but always start the conversation with “You need to come back to Facebook” as if it is a cult…is it a cult?).
I have been amazed by the change in my mood.
I am not constantly checking my phone for updates.
Nobody can ‘Tag’ me as being at places when we go out!
Nobody can ‘Tag’ me in awful pictures when I don’t give them permission.
Nobody has to ‘like’ my posts when they are actually bad news.
Fighting over a cab/upstreaming someone when trying to get a cab/fighting with your cab driver. The absolute WORST is when someone upstreams you, and acts all oblivious about it when clearly theyre acting like a douchebag and they think they can get away with it. GTFO. I understand and can tell if youre a tourist and have no idea / the slightest clue of cab courtesy, but sometimes, UGH!
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