Social networking sites are great. Facebook has afforded me the opportunity to rekindle friendships (I will post another day about the night of rekindling). On the other side of the coin, I found it brings out some nastiness. I am not shy to post to my status, or type a witty clip. I always try to keep it upbeat and pleasant.
When two “facebook friends” have a spat it can get ugly.(Really people, fangs replace teeth, they spew green vomit and then become large headed and bald) The FB lines are drawn. It is difficult to stay impartial. Each taking a jab at the other on their posts. It is not a pretty sight to behold. It burns my retinas, but yet I must keep reading, it is like a reality show unfolding on my computer.
How does this occur? I oft think to myself, after hitting she “share” button. “I hope no one is offended by this post.” I write the way it sounds in my head, (Yes this is dangerous, considering the way my mind thinks) I do hope my sarcasm isn’t mistaken for cruelty.
I naively used to wonder how one would be upset or take another posts to heart. But my faithful few, it understand it now. It cut to the core of a friend of mine. She is upset and hurt. After she vented her feelings to me I can no longer dismiss vile posts as harmless. It only takes a second to re-read what you have written and re-evaluate. Of course I understand it is YOUR page and therefore YOU have the right to type whatever the hell you deem appropriate. However, once you steer your negativity to another, it becomes THEIR cross to bear. A severed friendship is painful enough. Does anyone truly deserve the humiliation of knowing 60-500 “friends” are tuning in?
Why can’t we all just get along and live in a peaceful paisley world. Ok all, hum along with me… “kumbiah my lord, kumbiah!”
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Obviously I love your post as I've just signed up as a follower - go Stacey! You should be a columnist for a newspaper with your witty humor and outlandish observations!
ReplyDeleteWhile we're discussing facebook comments, it's also good to know that one can limit who sees the comments made back and forth. So if you don't want the 60 - 500 friends to see the response then take that second or two to edit the comment recipents.
google 'stfu marrieds' and 'facebook fails'; they're some first class examples of the misuse and abuse of facebook. Like you mentioned in your post, you have to keep reading because it's like a reality show.
ReplyDeleteGirlie, keep em' coming. I miised you, even your not so great posts are the fucking best! Without my daily blog I feel defeated. Kumbiah!!!!
ReplyDeleteI essentially just "un-friended" a couple that I used to be acquainted with. I was tired of their constant negative updates (seriously, why log on to Facebook to complain about everything five hundred times a day?) - that I could deal with but when they started making updates about how people shouldn't "spawn kids" and how they're sick of seeing people's "spawn" - one of them even wrote on my wall "Wow you have a kid now! You know they have pills to fix that." - if she only knew how long and how heartbreaking it was to try to conceive the baby I have. People like that offend me.
ReplyDeleteI think that there are people out there who are truly ignorant. They too are allowed a facebook account and God only knows that they sign up and type away. Like the comment before me some very stupid things are said. There is quite a few ways to look at this. 1 is limited vocabulary 2 limited life experience and the list goes on. Basically I think that most people do not intend to offend. Rather that they are hoping that someone will think that they are funny. Many, many people do not THINK before they speak. Because if they did they would shut the fuck up! I leave you with my personal favorite. Right after I had a miscarriage that was devestating a "friend" looked at me and said "you are better off clearly that baby was not meant to be!" 10 years later it is tough to swallow. All I wanted was someone to cry with or a simple "sorry friend". I certainly did not want something as precious as a baby, my baby, called "not meant to be".
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