Then i thought - perhaps my friends don't want to see me rambling for ages about something - I mean, Facebook started out as a way of just contacting each other, sharing photos, and occasionally funny videos - and it has snowballed into a giant platform where news, politics, music, art, banter, arguments, trolling all play out in real time - a blog would be a much better format for this right? So I then recalled that I had set up a blog some years ago - and I still had the link. I decided to log in and see if I could update it for the first time since May 2020 - but low and behold - despite me being able to log in, I was not able to update it for some reason, and no longer had access to it. With zero patience of going through the automated bot hell of trying to reach a resolution, I decided to draw a line under it and start afresh - but this time I thought, I won't just have a blog, I'll have a whole website - a site where I can link up some personal stuff, a blog, some photos, links to my music, games, computing and other interests - free of the chains of Facebook and all the hassle it brings. If people want my thoughts well they know now where they can find me - and I have more freedom to post what I want, when I want, without automated algorithms, bots, trolls and all sorts of madness making it hell. It's just like the old days - before social media - when those of a certain age will remember that people used to actually have their own full websites - I have fond memories of the early 2000s when myself and many of my friends had Freewebs accounts (R.I.P.) then before that of course there was Geocities... and to my delight, there is now Neocities, a homage to the old school days of the web when people had more freedom and less restraint - there was no social media sandbox, we could, within reason, do whatever we wanted. We weren't limited to a number of characters, we weren't beholden to an algorithm that proritised sponsored corporate content over updates from our friends, we were in control and I think in the absence of any real competition to Facebook, we need to get back to that.