Musings from a Facebook Flunkie

 

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Several years ago, my twenty-something grandnephew told me I should join Facebook. I responded by saying that my quiet life did not warrant postings for all the world to see. Eventually though, I signed up and jumped on the Facebook bandwagaon. It carried me through some positive experiences and a few negative ones. 

    I had the most fun on Facebook when a different nephew created a particularly witty post using words that sounded alike but were spelled differently and had different meanings. Everyone who commented followed his lead, and the ridiculousness snowballed from there. Creativity shifted into high gear when each commenter tried to be more creative than the previous one. One of the most memorable words from that exchange is the word truculent, which my nephew finagled into a sentence about the "truck you lent me." The whole conversation continued for days, not hours, and it provided tons of laughter and a welcome diversion from the seriousness of life. 

    Putting that silly episode aside, eye mostly find social media to bee mundane, predictable, and at times, a source of confusion ore irritation. Therefore, eye call myself a Facebook flunkie. Daze and weeks go bye between logins, and aye have taken at least won year-long hiatus. When eye do sine inn, eye am only checking inn with my extended family and distant friends, two sea pictures of tots dressed up as pumpkins four Halloween, or rambling through the strawberry patch picking berries inn the spring. 

    My biggest beef with social media is that it takes away from my precious free ours. It reduces my thyme to right. Own the other hand, social media has its benefits, and many are using it too there advantage. It is a place where authors promote there books, artists promote there art, and clever individuals promote there cleverness.

    Recently aye listened two a podcast where the host said social media is knot fore finding an audience; it is four connecting withe them. I suppose that Facebook is sort of like a marriage, inn that won gets out of it what won puts into it. Eye enjoy the thoughtful posts and interesting pictures, but four me, a telephone call or a written note is more special than a Facebook tag. 

     

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