{"id":1350,"date":"2025-03-03T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2025-03-03T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:25:56","slug":"why-i-am-not-on-facebook-this-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Why I am Not on Facebook this Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/laurihogle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/czNmcy1wcml2YXRlL3Jhd3BpeGVsX2ltYWdlcy93ZWJzaXRlX2NvbnRlbnQvbHIvd2s0MjE0MzM5My1pbWFnZS1rcDZhbWZ1bC5qcGc.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is to make clear why I am taking a break (indeed already have been taking a break) from Facebook this Lent. I have decided for my mental and spiritual well being this Lent to give up Facebook. I have for the last month or so not been on Facebook very much at all and I intend to cut out the remaining bit for the entirety of Lent. No I am not going to be looking for othe Social Media at this time. I am on a old fashioned BB Forum and will remain there but otherwise I will be absent<br><br>My main reason for this is self care. In the wake of the coming of the Trump administration I started listening to the friends on Facebook in America and I became overwhelmed with the news that they were posting. I did not get care fatigue, I just could not cope. I was like a sponge soaking up the pain and outrage they were going through. I was not helping them, and I was making myself ill. I needed to limit my contact with news. I am doing so and part of that is not being on Facebook<br><br>At the same time, I am asking myself hard questions about the nature of the World we live in and how I live in that world.  I am needing space to think and to discern. This is very Lenten, I know. The way Facebook aims to grab ones attention and hold it is not conducive to this. I need time out of the shallow cluttered streams that are social media. I am taking Lent to do this. My hope is that during Lent I will be able to post a series of thoughts on this blog as I make progress a long the way. This is only part of a much bigger discernment process.<br><br>I am therefore planning on not being on Facebook at all during Lent. At Easter I will decide whether I am coming back to Facebook or whether I am leaving altogether and therefore will be deleting my account.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is to make clear why I am taking a break (indeed already have been taking a break) from Facebook this Lent. I have decided for my mental and spiritual well being this Lent to give up Facebook. I have for the last month or so not been on Facebook very much at all and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I am Not on Facebook this Lent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[329,607,569,330,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-mental-health","category-personal-reflection","category-spirituality","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}