Fa Fa

My brain-breaking trick for weaning off of Facebook involved creating a fake URL for Google News. Blame the home row.Old habits die hard, and the one that led to this post died a lot harder than some of the others.Recently, I made a realization: I have been unwillingly addicted to Facebook for a long time, and it’s not even because I like Facebook. Rather, it’s because I find it an extremely easy URL to type into a modern web browser’s omnibar. This sounds crazy, but the first two letters, f and a, are on the home row, and I don’t really rely on bookmarks, but my browser’s history function to type in URLs.This creates a sort of recency bias. If I type in the same URL a lot, it’s the one that pops up the most. And so, if I’m at a browser with no clear idea of what my intent for the next page I load up, I inevitably type in “fa,” which would suck me in.Over the years, Facebook’s bad content has gotten worse and worse, and despite my dislike of the company, I’ve kept it mostly out of…