2025-11-10: poking my head up

i don't use facebook much anymore. that's kind of an understatement: i think the last time i used it, like, seriously used it, was in the early 2010s. and even then, it was probably still force of habit. i'd stopped adding old friends and started adding...colleagues. worse yet, people i'd peripherally known in high school.

if you looked at my profile a week ago, it'd reflect that activity: an old picture of myself, taken on a point 'n shoot, that's probably a dozen years old; very few posts, all of them friends-only; liking a few things from old friends, and ignoring absolutely everything else. i've been using fb marginally more the last few weeks, promoting some music stuff i have upcoming. after that, it'll be quiet again. but in the spirit of that, i decided to (finally) change my profile picture.

currently: a half dozen comments, mostly from lovely old friends, but also, otherwise something like 60 likes? when my friends list is barely four times that, that's a lot. unexpected, and unsettling. worse, a couple of friends irl mentioned the update. which: don't. absolutely don't talk to me irl about social media stuff. jesus, you know the rules. the two worlds are supposed to be separate. shut up and be cool.

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