The Contents of Facebook
To save what sanity I have left and stop being angry so often, I stopped following those people who are always complaining about people with different skin colors than theirs, those who splatter Facebook with nonsensical political memes and those who think animals have psychic powers... and now my Facebook feed is as boring as watching paint dry.
So here are the things I see people sharing on Facebook:
They share good news, their good news, which, if they said it out loud would be called bragging. Send that stuff to the newspaper. We'll do the bragging for you.
Then there are people who ask for prayers on Facebook so they can get attention without earning it, and then there's the people who say "Prayers please, God knows the need" which really means "Send me a private message so I can share the gossip." But that's all OK. What's really bad is those who ask for prayers, then go ahead and tell everyone the gossip, when the gossip is actually about someone else who would have asked for prayers themself but they didn't want everyone in their business.
Some people post funny videos and memes, but they only make me laugh if they feature funny-faced cats or dogs. Then there are fail videos, which are collections of people failing at attempting to do things spectularly, from cliff diving to riding down hills in shopping carts. Those are funny, too, and often painful looking, but no one ever offers prayers for them.
There are constantly happy birthday wishes but that's because Facebook constantly nags us to remember so that the owners of Facebook can pretend that Facebook has any positive effect on society.
Mothers post photos of their kids, and these get an inordinate amount of likes, mostly by mothers who want other mothers to like photos of their kids. Mothers post photos of their kids doing anything, which they sometimes accurately think are cute. Fathers usually only post photos of their kids doing sports or shooting things.
Then there are the ultra-political people who post political memes or make political statements which incite arguments with other ultra-political people which causes everyone to get angry and accomplishes nothing while the non-political people they hope to convince ignore them and ask for prayers for themselves or post photos of their kids when they should be asking for prayers for all the angry political folks or making fail videos of the political folks failing at convincing others to believe what they believe.
All of these posts, especially the gossipy ones, generate dozens or hundreds of likes, by the way.
And then there are my music videos which I invested time, emotion and a great deal of thought into creating, and they get no likes at all.
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