Goodbye to Facebook

I started using Facebook when I opened the shop in 2015, primarily as a way to tell people about our events and, on my personal page, to play with new ways of expressing myself by sharing pictures and stories and songs and poems and the occasional article that I found on the internet. I knew – we all knew – that Facebook, like all the other so-called social media, as well as the countless other apps that were increasingly taking over the internet, was in it for the money and that its owners were extremely unpleasant and greedy people. But, let’s face it, it was fun to be able to use it and so I kept telling myself that I wasn’t the problem, the problem was all those other people who misused it by telling lies and fostering hatred and, in the process, bringing the world to the sorry state in which it now finds itself.

Anyway, I can no longer see the positive value of social media in any way, shape or form. And so I will stop posting on Facebook. Please comment on this blog or send me an email, or even better, come by the shop if you wish to communicate with me in the future and/or create an event or activity at Andy’s Corner. As Bob Dylan once put it, “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”