Local view: After Facebook, life returns for real

Someone wise once told me, “You can either have a great virtual life or a great real life, but having both is too much work.” I never really thought about that until last week when I bid my Facebook account farewell, mostly just to see if I could. I had done the majority of my communication via Facebook messaging and e-mail since 2009, and it was hard that first week to sit down at my laptop and not immediately log in to see what was going on in everyone’s world. I had gotten in touch with people with whom I had gone to high school and grade school, and I had kept track of what my teenage children were up to. (Yes, kids, if your parents are your Facebook “friends,” they can see what’s posted, from status updates you post to pictures in which you are tagged by others.)

By: Moriah Erickson, Duluth News Tribune