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Claiming that he lives independently from social media these days, 39 year-old local resident Matt Dewey said it\u2019s been \u201cpretty freeing to just be here, in the now\u2014and not have deal with all this stuff from a fake \u2018virtual\u2019 world.\u201d Dewey now never changes any profile pictures and admits to spending only six hours scrolling through Facebook photos and articles a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whenever relatives and friends ask him why he never updates his status or photos, which \u201cbelieve me, happens all the time,\u201d he says, he has to explain that he\u2019s just given up that vacuous part of his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, for instance, last week it was my little cousin\u2019s birthday. And she called the next day and said she was really hurt I didn\u2019t post anything for her birthday, even though she saw a green light was next to my name from 6 p.m. till about midnight. I told her I\u2019m off the grid, but it seemed like that wasn\u2019t enough for her. I mean, people just don\u2019t get it these days. They\u2019re all so glued to their screens, as if it\u2019s reality or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the reporter left his home, Matt was answering the door to someone from Postmates carrying a huge bag of Arby\u2019s. His new charcoal-grey MacBook Pro was open to an album of his high-school ex-girlfriend\u2019s trip to Florence. He said if he scrolled hard enough he could get to the pictures of his estranged brother\u2019s wedding, which he wasn\u2019t invited to.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty fun,\u201d he said, as he walked me out his log-cabin to a long dark wooden pathway. \u201cThat\u2019s how I spend most of my Saturday nights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wow. Truly a man of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Harry Weinstein Nov. 2, 2018 Claiming that he lives independently from social media these days, 39 year-old local resident Matt Dewey said it\u2019s been \u201cpretty freeing to just be here, in the now\u2014and not have deal with all this stuff from a fake \u2018virtual\u2019 world.\u201d Dewey now never changes any profile pictures and admits to spending only six hours scrolling through Facebook photos and articles a day.\u00a0 Whenever relatives and friends ask him why he never updates his status or photos, which \u201cbelieve me, happens all the time,\u201d he says, he has to explain that he\u2019s just given up that vacuous part of his life. \u201cLike, for instance, last week it was my little cousin\u2019s birthday. And she called the next day and said she was really hurt I didn\u2019t post anything for her birthday, even though she saw a green light was next to my name from 6 p.m. till about midnight. I told her I\u2019m off the grid, but it seemed like that wasn\u2019t enough for her. I mean, people just don\u2019t get it these days. They\u2019re all so glued to their screens, as if it\u2019s reality or something.\u201d As the reporter left his home, Matt was answering the door to someone from Postmates carrying a huge bag of Arby\u2019s. His new charcoal-grey MacBook Pro was open to an album of his high-school ex-girlfriend\u2019s trip to Florence. He said if he scrolled hard enough he could get to the pictures of his estranged brother\u2019s wedding, which he wasn\u2019t invited to. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty fun,\u201d he said, as he walked me out his log-cabin to a long dark wooden pathway. \u201cThat\u2019s how I spend most of my Saturday nights.\u201d Wow. Truly a man of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}