....but when I do I tell Facebook.
I went for nearly a week without checking my email or FB. I spent time making sure my kid did her homework, ran errands, made dinner on time, and plotted the calendar. What I found out was that I missed two important emails that inadvertantly were rectified before they became important. This happened merely by being engaged in the people around me on a face to face basis. On FB I missed nothing.
Over the past few years I found myself reading the comments on news articles mainly as an extension to reading the editorials. What I found myself feeling was anxiety and despair. Certainly not crippling but it would make me irritated. Then I realized Letters to the Editor went through a filter of checking for spelling, checking for outright ignorance, and a hate filter. News comments are open to anyone that can peck out whatever thought flits through their head.
FB seems to echo this, though tempered by the fact people's real names are on it. People post the most hateful of things ANYWAYS. So my new mantra is if you post anything hateful, willfully ignorant, or persist on being asinne I will Unfriend you. I am not on FB to be held victim to your political views, read your re-posted mentally pre-masticated 'thoughts' or hear how you think the dissolution of the country/religion/education would be better if we all had guns/regular beatings of our kids/God Bless Whatever and Whoever on the dollar, coin, or pledge. I am sure this will cause heartbreak the world over but as the famous quote goes, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
I went for nearly a week without checking my email or FB. I spent time making sure my kid did her homework, ran errands, made dinner on time, and plotted the calendar. What I found out was that I missed two important emails that inadvertantly were rectified before they became important. This happened merely by being engaged in the people around me on a face to face basis. On FB I missed nothing.
Over the past few years I found myself reading the comments on news articles mainly as an extension to reading the editorials. What I found myself feeling was anxiety and despair. Certainly not crippling but it would make me irritated. Then I realized Letters to the Editor went through a filter of checking for spelling, checking for outright ignorance, and a hate filter. News comments are open to anyone that can peck out whatever thought flits through their head.
FB seems to echo this, though tempered by the fact people's real names are on it. People post the most hateful of things ANYWAYS. So my new mantra is if you post anything hateful, willfully ignorant, or persist on being asinne I will Unfriend you. I am not on FB to be held victim to your political views, read your re-posted mentally pre-masticated 'thoughts' or hear how you think the dissolution of the country/religion/education would be better if we all had guns/regular beatings of our kids/God Bless Whatever and Whoever on the dollar, coin, or pledge. I am sure this will cause heartbreak the world over but as the famous quote goes, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
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