With a nod to Billy Joel, I am not Saying Goodbye to Hollywood, though I was unimpressed with the place when I saw it.  I am Saying Goodbye to Facebook.

This is post number 548 of speaktherights.com.  On these pages, that began in July of 2014, I have type nearly a half a million words.  I have enjoyed them all even when I wasn’t enjoying them.  My long-time readers know what I mean.

I made a conscience effort this past fall to cut back on speaktherights.com.  It has not worked out very well.  In the interim I have paid more attention to facebook than I have speaktherights.com.  It has not worked out very well. I say it again.

I was not made for facebook.  I realize most of the folks I know on facebook would never fathom having a blog that produced a half a million words.  I don’t expect them to.  It is not what they do.  It is, however, what I do.  And what I need to get back to on a more regular basis.

Facebook is a vehicle that I don’t travel well on.  I love words.  I dissect them.  I breathe them.  I look at them upside down.  Know that I will never ask anyone to understand any of this.  It is my bane and my glory.  I smile when I think about writing.

I thank Mr. Bart Bigham for allowing me to come into his 11th grade classroom each Spring to expound on writing in one shape or another whilst tying it to a guidance lesson for life.  Even if he reads this, he will never know how important this is for me.

When I taught English I imparted on my classroom that I believe firmly in what is right and wrong and what is good and bad.  Fair, I told them, is either a degree of something or a place where you can get a really good corn dog along Indiana Highway 250 outside of Brownstown around the last week of July.

Facebook, to me, is good to a degree.  My problem is I get hung up on words…words my friends have not thought about or examined that I turn my head sideways at have brought me here.  I see way too much “Re-post and make a rational decision (or no decision at all) later”.

Guess whose problem this is?  Mine.  I will OWN IT.  There is novel idea these days.

So there it is.  I am not unfriending anyone!!!  I am suspending my facebook account tomorrow evening.  This is the right thing to do. Perhaps I will be back.

I will still have my twitter account.  I encourage you to stop in to speaktherights.com to see what is new or browse some of the old material.  I have been blessed beyond measure in this writing endeavor.   Hopefully I will pick it back it up a bit.  I told my dear wife, Carrie, I would like to put a few quick hitters on more often instead of 700-1000 word columns.  For better or worse I am driven by the 700 word column.  If I don’t get there I feel like a weenie.  I must get over that!

Thank you.

Speaking the rights.

Danny Johnson