I’ll be honest, I’ve never been a big Facebook person. Even when the age of social media dawned for me as someone in Gen Z, it was just at the bottom of the totem pole. I prefer Instagram and Twitter (X) and might be slightly addicted to TikTok.
However, when I accepted my position with TPI, I had to dust the cobwebs off my Facebook account, update some information, delete some photos and overall make it look like it had been used — other than my occasional “Thank you” on birthdays.
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