I was a late comer to Facebook and once in, I had the attitude that I was too cool to be one of those people who was constantly telling her friends about the minutia of her life. Slowly but surely, I gained enough "friends" that I began checking in every couple of days, then every day then twice a day, then... I'm not on Facebook all of the time, like SOME people I know, but checking the latest posts has started taking up way too much of my time. Time that could be put to more Effective use.
Most of what people put out for their friends' enjoyment is fine, even entertaining. But today, two of my so-called friends shared some ugly political nonsense and it has me all upset. For the record, President Obama is nothing like Osama bin Laden ever was even on his worst days! Neither does he waltz over to the archives to burn sacred American documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Finally, he is not sending G-men out to confiscate your guns and make you work in a collective farm. This is the kind of spew that some of my "friends", who I actually consider friends think it is OK to share.
I was supposed to be productive today, after all my property is flooded, thanks to Hurricane Isaac, so I have been housebound for hours, but instead of re-organizing the pantry or doing laundry or changing sheets, I am obsessing about the nasty garbage my Facebook friends believe their Facebook friends want to see. I was so upset that I actually wrote on these friends' walls to let them know that their "shares" were toxic. Then I posted the following as my status:
Dear Friends,
I would like to request that if you share ugly and twisted
political messages about one presidential candidate or another that you please
un-friend me. “ Likes” are fine, but
comparing either of these gentlemen to Osama bin Laden, Vladimir Lenin, or Adolf
Hitler is wrong.
Thank you.
Perhaps this was a little extreme, but I was truly sickened by these postings. Part of being a Highly Ineffective Person is that it is hard to let things like this go. I get so tied up inside that I cannot focus on anything else. I know a number of Highly Effective People and they don't seem to get bogged down the way I do. Perhaps it doesn't bother them that when lots of people spread lots of lies, no one knows what the truth is anymore. Or, maybe Highly Effective People are optimists who don't let nastiness get them down. Or maybe they are stupid.
Copyright 2012 Teresa Friedlander all rights reserved
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