Yes, it's been a couple weeks. First there was spring break, where I was only working half days. Then the past two weeks have been where I have been working 10-12 hour days. No problem, just into what I am doing. That is porting Maze Pseudo to work on the Apple TV. The tasks I started with have been easy. It has been the gotchas along the way that slow me down. Like artwork. To get something already functional on iOS to work on Apple TV required me making between 8 and 18 sets of 3 images. These are the new parallax images used for all the icons. I should have done 18 sets. I did 8. Took me two days. And they are not that good. Anyway, my task list has less than two weeks left.
Facebook doesn't understand when you change your habits very well. About 6 months ago, I unfollowed most news sites. Just after the beginning of the year, I started tracking how much time I was spending with Facebook a day "Catching Up With The World". About 2 months ago, I did another large unfollowing of most of the things I was previously. I spent a week looking at what a particular feed was posting. If it was not engage me a lot, I unfollowed. Do not worry, I did not unfollow friends. In fact, it is family and friends postings that I wanted to be sure I was still seeing. I still have things that I follow because they engage me. At some point, I moved to only looking at Facebook once a day. It used to be 2 or more longer sessions.
All of these shifts have not had a dramatic impact on time spent. Beginning of the year is around 2 hours a day and now it varies more but usually around an hour. What this says to me is that I am still engaging (reading links, watching videos) for about the same amount. I have also noticed that I see more things people like or comment on than before. Those I do not want to see. I wish we still had the option to turn them off. Share something if it is worthy of sharing. Like, err React, is for communicating back to the poster. I don't really care if a million people Haha something. There is also sharing too much or being to myopic in your posts. Twenty thousand cat videos gets you none of them watched or many of your other posts even looked at.
There are a couple of interesting things that have occurred. Right now, I do not have a real source of general news. I only see what people are posting/talking about. Top of that list is famous people dying. I tend to find out with a lag. But then that is all I see. Other news, like flooding in Texas is almost non-existent. Wait, there was flooding in Texas? Must not have been all that important in comparison to Prince. Prince is bigger than Texas. *nods knowingly to self*
Another interesting thing is politics. You would think it would overwhelm my feed. It actually doesn't. Most things posted are thoughtful or funny. Yes, there is the occasional spammer. I have friends that are obviously in most of the major camps. Except Cruz. I get nothing from Cruz people. Maybe Cruz people is an urban myth.
Lack of news doesn't seem to bother me. I do not stress about things I have no control over. I wish I had a candidate. I wish Facebook gave better controls over content. I want more meaningful unique commentary on the world! That or cat videos (apparently).
