It’s finals week here at UChicago, and I’m trying something I haven’t really done in years. I’m shutting off Facebook-proper. I uninstalled the Facebook app from my phone, and logged off on my laptop (I’ll still be using FB messenger and events, which are thankfully seperate apps).

Facebook has its merits. It’s an immensely powerful communications platform, and a great way to discover articles. It’s all-consuming though. The news feed just sucks time out of my day, and I can’t say I’m necessarily better for the constant stream of information available to me. Plus, it’s finals week, and I really shouldn’t be spending time on unneccesary communications, so I figured now was a great time to take a break. We’ll see how it goes.