At one time in the past I had intended to log every single walk I took, expecting to eventually travel walk the distance in miles of a trip to Phoenix, Arizona. Since that “dream” I have gone through multiple walk-tracking apps and have changed the way that I track my walks several times.

Things always change it seems. I used to be content with starting up a tracking app and then stopping it at the end of my walk, then posting that to Facebook, but I’d sometimes forget to start the app at the beginning of my walk, so it would only have half or a portion of my walk recorded, or none at all if I finished my walk before I remembered I forgot to start the app.

Today, Google Fit takes care of everything. It knows when I’m walking and when I’m not, and it tracks what it can automatically via GPS. The rest, like when I’m walking indoors at Vista, still gets tracked but only as steps and distance without a map. Even any photos I take are included in my timeline. And I earn “Move Minutes” and “Heart Points” as well, which is Google’s way of trying to keep me motivated.

I still post my walks to Facebook occasionally, but only when I feel the distance is exceptional or if I took a decent photo along the way and feel like sharing it. I might just stop the Facebook posting of my walks entirely though, and start posting them over here instead. I can never find what I’m looking for on Facebook for some reason. There just seems to be too much clutter and inconsistency there these days. I can look at my newsfeed on Facebook and then refresh it and every single time it shows me something different. Is it “rotating” recent posts? Sometimes I see posts from yesterday, sometimes today. The only way, it seems, to see everything the same way consistently is to actually go to a specific friend’s timeline. At least THAT doesn’t seem to change until they post something new. And what’s the deal with posting to your “News Feed” or to “Your Story”? It doesn’t some weirdly different stuff when you post to “Your Story” and it drives me nuts. I think they need a “Simple” version for us fogies that works and appears just like a blog. Predictable, add-free, simple. Wait a minute, I have one of those!

Don’t get me wrong, I like options. I’m a huge Android fan and not a Apple fan for just that reason. But Facebook got bloated and off-the-rails a long time ago and never stopped. I’m a big fan of Reddit now (thanks, Mike!) and find everything there much more interesting as a daily stop-and-browse site. I would even be fine with quitting Facebook entirely if I didn’t have so many friends and relatives still on it.

So what was my point with this post? My walks? Facebook? Reddit? I don’t really know. Just ranting I suppose. Filling my site with more content. Or gibberish, or maybe even flibbertigibbet, whichever you prefer.