Farewell, Meta

From my social media post, March 24th, 2025.

I have made the difficult decision to leave Meta at the end of this month. I am deleting my Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts on March 29th. This is not an information post detailing my reasons why. For that you can do your own research “surveillance capitalism” or “data democracy” or look up the word “enshittification.” The gist of it though, is that I think there way of doing data that centre the values I want to live hard into.

This is just a post letting everyone know I am leaving. 

And that I love you so much. 

I have loved sharing my digital life here and weaving a social fabric with you. Some of you have been here since I was attending college and signed up for this new “Facebook” thing. Some of you have joined me along the way. And some of you are brand new connections. It’s incredible to think about what that time span has all entailed–from 24 year old me to 40 year old me. 

I am not someone who can plan all the steps before executing them. I am a “build my wings on the way down” kind of woman. I need to make myself vulnerable to something to feel the next step. Need creates necessary action for me, but doesn’t always entail a full plan. 

So, while I do not have a firm idea of what my digital life will look like after Saturday, I do know it will exist in some form. 

Stay in touch if you want to. I imagine this move will feel for a while like I have severed the entirety of my social fabric. But I trust that my eyes will adjust to the nightsky, and I will find my way a little deeper into the heart of the woods, where I can hopefully begin working on a different kind of social fabric.

Meet me there if you want to. My tiny home, my heart, and my hearth, digital or otherwise, is always open to you. 

I love you.