I'm a member of a couple different social media sites. I'm not really sure how many social media sites there are, but I do know enough to know that I'm not actively involved in all of them. To tell the truth, I'm not really active in any of them. I go on to see what everybody is up to, or catch up on the latest news & gossip (mostly gossip), but that's about it. I do find it amusing, however, to see what people post on these sites.
First and foremost question I'd like an answer to is "when did Facebook become home to Betty Crocker's frickin cookbook"? I don't care what you made for dinner last night. I don't care how tasty it was. I had a piece of salami and a slice of cheese. Maybe I can post the damn recipe for it. Make sure you share it so that you have it on your home page! (Open the package of lunchmeat and gently remove a single slice of salami. Place salami on paper towel,(or hand) and open the wrapper from the slice of cheese. Eat and enjoy!) Really people. How many of you are ever gonna cook the crap that you save on your homepage? I know some will, but really. Really.
And politics. Holy Ninny-Muggins. Every other frickin post, tweet, twit, update, and whatever else they're called is a political post of some sort. Hang the damn Democrats! Bludgeon the Republicans! Force an enema on the Libertarians! Did you know that the entire Gulf War was because the liberals decided they didn't want the Iraqi's to be able to use MARY Kay Cosmetics? The Conservatives are the reason you can only buy toilet paper in even number of roll packages. The Libertarians just want to party and smoke weed. Holy Mother of Merwin! Get a grip people.
And stop telling me the little dog in the picture is going to die if I don't share the post RIGHT NOW! Truth is, I saw the same post 2 years ago, and I didn't share it then either. Either the puppy is a happy, healthy 2 year old dog playing with little Timmy now, or it's dead. Either case, I don't need to share the picture.
Or perhaps my favorite. If I share of a picture of (insert rich person here), they are going to give me $5000 dollars!!! You've gotta be a special kind of dumb-ass to really think it's gonna work. But wow, Bill Gates has billions! That's why he's doing it! Got news for you Sunshine, he didn't get that much money by giving it away to people posting a picture of him!
How about the fact that if I don't forward the ancient Chinese master puzzle fortune cookie card in 10 seconds, I'll have 5 years of bad luck? 10 seconds from when? It's like when you see a commercial on TV and they say that. Well, you're showing the commercial in 3 different time zones, 27 times a day, so chances are, most people aren't going to be able to call within 10 seconds.
Same thing with the "are you brave enough to post this" posts. "Share if you believe in Jesus". "Post if God is your #1". "forward if you stand with Christians everywhere!" You know what? I don't need to forward any of these things for God to know where I stand. He knows. I just skip them, but I always wonder, just a little bit, if somewhere, my preacher is keeping tally. (I'm pretty sure he's not, because I've never seen him forward them either!)
Why can't things just go back to the way they were. When the only reason you joined any kind of social media site was to see what the hot girl with big hooters who sat behind you in Trigonometry class looked like now!
