{"id":1360,"date":"2025-05-26T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:05:14","slug":"why-i-am-deactivating-my-facebook-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Why I am deactivating my Facebook account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8778463475_5d95066757.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8778463475_5d95066757.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8778463475_5d95066757-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know this should have been posted almost six weeks ago but I have decided to deactivate my Facebook account for now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why am I deactivating my account?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why am I deactivating?<br><br>The not being on Facebook has actually been good for my mental health. I am  in a place  of recovery and not in a place where I would say it was safe for me to go back onto Facebook. You can hear where I was with my post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1350\">why I was giving up Facebook for Lent<\/a>. I have calmed down, I get my news in a more controlled mode, instead of widely googling and checking up on facts brought up on Facebook.While I do miss interactions on Facebook with friends I also do not miss the helpless anxiety it was engendering in me. I was getting overloaded. I did do some of the thinking and you can read that in the following blog posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1354\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1354\">Did AI Change Facebook?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1357\">Business Survival in a Society Ruled by Avarice and Meta&#8217;s Moral Choices<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There should be others but Lent as it always does, just got busier and I did not get the space on a Monday to write the reflections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why am I deactivating and not deleting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I say I value friends on Facebook. There are some who do not have other contacts, there are a couple of messenger groups I act as an unofficial moderator to. I am extremely light as a moderator, I think I have acted three times in five years but I am there. I will both be contactable through Messenger and able to do that moderating if necessary. It is a compromise and at present I am not really happy with compromises but it seems the sensible way to do it at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this should have been posted almost six weeks ago but I have decided to deactivate my Facebook account for now. Why am I deactivating my account? Why am I deactivating? The not being on Facebook has actually been good for my mental health. I am in a place of recovery and not in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/?p=1360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I am deactivating my Facebook account<\/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":[516,1],"tags":[616],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jmr-journey","category-uncategorised","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}