For the past couple of months, I have had a brief but strangely unsatisfying encounter with Facebook.  For better or worse, I have gotten re-acquanted with some old friends from high schools and have acknowledged several members of my family, who I fear have offered me friend status out of familial loyalty rather than anything to say to me. 

And so I have discovered that blogging is my posting of choice.  I can author controversial statements and express my true opinions here rather than couch my terms in vanilla so that I will not offend someone in public.

I am not going to disappear from Facebook but just passively lurk and read the various postings of my family and former associates that have graced my life over the past 68 years.