On Friday evening before I left the house to drive to a sister’s for the regular Friday night family dinner, I posted an unusual-for-me mild rant on social media about how I would rather see photos of babies and puppies than read posts about a certain deadly viral disease (that will remain unnamed on this blog.)<\/p>\n
Posts on social media about this disease range from educated and informed to fearful and panic-stricken — the latter mostly among the less educated and more politically conservative of my on-line social community. Some posts have been riddled with dead-wrong fear-mongered crap. <\/p>\n
But what has been bothering me is the raging politically-motivated rants about it. Really, I just sick of it. I just want to hear about your kittens, family, and good things in your life. Not the flabbler-flub regurgitated from a certain cable news station that I refer to as “faux news.”<\/p>\n
Anyway, while I was at my sister’s…
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\n…a niece looked at my social media post and informed me that it had been hijacked by posts from some ultraconservative so-called “friends” of mine.<\/p>\n
I looked at it and was appalled. I wanted to deal with it right then, but unfortunately my password for that social media site is so complicated, I could not remember it so that I could sign on.<\/p>\n
I went ahead and had a nice dinner with my family. I got home about 8:30pm, then reviewed my post. It really had “blown up” way out of proportion. This is the first time that has happened to me, and I was rather shocked (in one way, but not in another, considering the diversity of my social media contacts and their politics.)<\/p>\n
I draw a firm line that I do not post about politics on social media, and I do not allow others to do that with responses to my own posts. Some of the responses to me on that post were so vile and negative that I decided to delete the post entirely.<\/p>\n
I thought that was that. But the next morning, I had five of those more right-ward leaning people who had posted vile negativity on that post that I deleted contact me with further negativity. That is where I draw the line. I “unfriended” them and did not respond to their messages. Nothing I could say would do anything to change their thinking, so I chose not to feed their anger. <\/p>\n
Wow… quite a lesson learned. I will not post anything like that again. <\/p>\n
Life is short: apply lessons learned and cut the ties to negative acquaintance contacts you don’t need in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Friday evening before I left the house to drive to a sister’s for the regular Friday night family dinner, I posted an unusual-for-me mild rant on social media about how I would rather see photos of babies and puppies … Continue reading