I'm back on Facebook for a bit. It was starting to get lonely, here. And I'm cognitively tired, would have to clean up the channel. But that all stays there, because I, whenever a little strength, I have Manu “Disappear” work. There are minimal, but crucial differences between a website and a public page. I develop the website without a viewer, in knowledge, that there could be one or two anonymous visitors, but in principle nobody, because an anonymous eye is not a real eye. Facebook is a platform for exchanging information, the, if they break the neutral area of information exchange, and e.g. personally will collide with the dictum of complacency.
So, as I can assess it so far, is personal use of FB (So, for example, for self-dramatization, real discussions etc) declined sharply in my absence, and the use of the platform for advertising has increased significantly. I'm not like I was back then either, when I wanted to touch Facebook as a real world. I still think so, that we could do more, more, than the institutions tell us. (Sennett)
Seen in this way, being on FB is also a training for me, to find out again and again, where I have to circumcise myself, to what extent I can adapt. So if I throw myself in there, without checking the given external perspective, this will reflect on me in a form of great silent confusion and shame. So I have to find compromises, because my attempt to access a real life, to find the world, hasn't really borne fruit in the last two years.
I didn't succeed, the healthy one, to bring the real world to my bedside, even though I begged for it in stupid advertisements. And, Since the pandemic, the..., who is still sick now, dress warmly. I hope, that I'll clean up this channel at some point, but I do not think so, that I will ever be able to do this. What does it matter?, which garden I dig and plant in, it is a garden, which does not reach the mountain air, has to make do with its small breathing volume behind a window.
Facebook is public, private or “for friends” set. I think, that none of these setting options correspond to this, how I can actually use Facebook. It simply isn't “public”, no “more private” location, but not a place either “for friends”, because the institutional framework is so strong, that you can't decide about it, how you actually want to use this platform, rather; you're hardly there, the question arises about the compromise. In principle I could imagine, that things are similar out there. And that the specifications, so individualized they come across, so rigid they remain, if you want to get in there. But it's still exciting, to hang around there every now and then, where it seems, that others are too.