Post by racegrrl714 on Dec 4, 2014 22:45:21 GMT -5
I deactivated my Facebook account for now. I had been thinking about it for a whike... all the hateful posts from everyone were really starting to get me down. This just kind of sealed the deal that I need to excise some of the negativity out of my life. At least for now.
I deactivated my Facebook account for now. I had been thinking about it for a whike... all the hateful posts from everyone were really starting to get me down. This just kind of sealed the deal that I need to excise some of the negativity out of my life. At least for now.
See? Don't do that. @helenabonhamcarter got all up in my shit (rightly so) when I was thinking of doing that. I blocked the offenders and moved on. Maybe consider that.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
I deactivated my Facebook account for now. I had been thinking about it for a whike... all the hateful posts from everyone were really starting to get me down. This just kind of sealed the deal that I need to excise some of the negativity out of my life. At least for now.
Yeah, just hide people. I yelled at gpw when she wanted to do it because it keeps the people who know you and love you from being able to stay in contact with you, from being able to bring you cheer, laugh at lame stuff, post things to make you giggle or whatever.
But hiding people is a beaaaaaautiful thing, especially as they don't even need to know you did it.
I deactivated my Facebook account for now. I had been thinking about it for a whike... all the hateful posts from everyone were really starting to get me down. This just kind of sealed the deal that I need to excise some of the negativity out of my life. At least for now.
Yeah, just hide people. I yelled at gpw when she wanted to do it because it keeps the people who know you and love you from being able to stay in contact with you, from being able to bring you cheer, laugh at lame stuff, post things to make you giggle or whatever.
But hiding people is a beaaaaaautiful thing, especially as they don't even need to know you did it.
Ditto this. I have some friends-of-friends who are not quite at the FB defriend level, but annoy the crap out of me. (Vegan? great. You do you. Daily photos of you hugging cows and turkeys, and updates about how once you would have been embarrassed to burst into tears in the meat aisle of the grocery store but now it's a sign of how evolved and sensitive you are? Yeah, no. No time for daily bragplaints)
Hiding people is indeed a beaaaaaaauuutiful thing.
Post by racegrrl714 on Dec 8, 2014 11:06:01 GMT -5
*update* For those that didn't read the OP before I deleted, last Thursday night I was at my parents' house and my dad brought up Ferguson and how if a protestor walked out in the middle of the road in front of him, he'd run them over. I told him that was murder. He said no it's not, it's totes ok to run them over because it's against the law to stand in the road, that the whole Michael Brown thing was over and done with and that "they" just needed to get over it, etc. etc. etc.
Like I said in my randoms post this morning, DH got a text from my dad saying that my mom wondered if I was still mad at them. *rolls eyes* I told DH not to even respond. This morning, I get this email... at work... from my mom: "Well I guess you are still mad at us. Sorry if we offended you. But we are entitled to our opinion about the matter too. Guess we should just steer clear of the topics of this and religion and politics. This kind of stuff should not come between family members. Love you."
I want to respond in some manner about how she's not entitled to her own opinion if it's factually wrong and filled with hate. But I don't know how to word it that won't set off our email filters here at work and get me fired. LOL
*update* For those that didn't read the OP before I deleted, last Thursday night I was at my parents' house and my dad brought up Ferguson and how if a protestor walked out in the middle of the road in front of him, he'd run them over. I told him that was murder. He said no it's not, it's totes ok to run them over because it's against the law to stand in the road, that the whole Michael Brown thing was over and done with and that "they" just needed to get over it, etc. etc. etc.
Like I said in my randoms post this morning, DH got a text from my dad saying that my mom wondered if I was still mad at them. *rolls eyes* I told DH not to even respond. This morning, I get this email... at work... from my mom: "Well I guess you are still mad at us. Sorry if we offended you. But we are entitled to our opinion about the matter too. Guess we should just steer clear of the topics of this and religion and politics. This kind of stuff should not come between family members. Love you."
I want to respond in some manner about how she's not entitled to her own opinion if it's factually wrong and filled with hate. But I don't know how to word it that won't set off our email filters here at work and get me fired. LOL
My BIL - one I actually like- said something along these lines when his fiance (are you still a fiance after 6 years and no wedding date - a thing I wonder about) showed MIL a video of the protesters in Somerville (they were outside the store she works at) at dinner the other night. MIL and DH just quickly changed the subject. I thought about whether I should argue. I am sure that he is sympathetic to Eric Garner but doesn't like the protests. Or maybe that's what I want to believe.