Yes. I successfully avoided 99% of news for the last 10 months. I tried to simply avoid actual news, but FB is basically a bunch of people sharing various news stories, so I had to cut that. Then I had to cut this forum too, since at least half the threads concern the news, and the other half someone brings it up in a thread somewhere.
I turned of every single person on my FB except my father and brother and Pocaracas who only posts lovely nature links, and I just use it to share innocuous stuff like pictures of our latest trip to the zoo.
Just last week though I got so desperately lonely that I came back here. Already I'm getting drawn back into the news. I need to stay out of it, but it's hard because in today's world of heightened social media and internet access, just normal human interactions are likely to result in discussion of politics and current events.
I turned of every single person on my FB except my father and brother and Pocaracas who only posts lovely nature links, and I just use it to share innocuous stuff like pictures of our latest trip to the zoo.
Just last week though I got so desperately lonely that I came back here. Already I'm getting drawn back into the news. I need to stay out of it, but it's hard because in today's world of heightened social media and internet access, just normal human interactions are likely to result in discussion of politics and current events.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
