As of today, have officially had to block too many people from my facebook page. Any number of things have caused this to happen. It ranges from people ghosting my page to people being just plain nuts. What is it about facebook that brings out the frenemies in people? Generally, once I friend someone on fb, I let them hang around, and just hide their posts if they become annoying. That way, I don't have to be annoyed and they don't have to be unfriended. I find it is a system that works well. But there are things that just cross the line for me. Preaching to me, at me, or about me will get you blocked. Throwing temper tantrums on my page will get you blocked. Lecturing me about what I post on my page, or my blog page, will get you blocked. And unfriending me, but continuing to read my posts and blogs will get you blocked. It's a social networking site, people, not the bible. And it's not as private as you might like to believe. Since I have the blog page, I have this little tab on the side that says Insights, and it is indeed insightful. I can tell who checks my pages, whether they are at home or work, pc or mobile device, and what platform they use. I can tell when they were on my page, how long, and how many times. I even have a special little tab for Mac users. Now granted, fb insights are not as informative as the ones here, but I am able to cross reference, and do the math myself.
Facebook makes it fairly simple to block people, and I hate that I have had to use it so much lately. (Word to the wise here...don't post your bullshit on my kids page, and we will get along a tiny bit better, mkay pumpkin?) Sadly, I have yet to figure out how to block a select few on here, without removing myself for the search engines. Which would defeat the purpose of having a public blog anyway. So consider this a kind of public notice. Feel free to read. Hell you can even comment. But the bottom line is this...I am not you secret friend. I am not the person you can only claim to know in certain circles. Either you know me or you don't. Either you are my friend or you aren't. And once you decide you are not my friend in ANY circle, well you aren't my friend at all. (See earlier posts regarding cowards....oops, you can't see that anymore, can you? My bad.) As for anyone commenting here, I invite them, adore them, and appreciate them. But if they are inapproprate or vindictive, if they attack me or mine on a personal level, I delete them. But I think you already know that too, from past experience, huh?
Here's a little food for thought. I have been married, and I have been in a few serious relationships, and I have had countless fights with my spouse/sigother regarding my friends. I won't give up my friends unless they want to be given up. I sure as hell won't give them up because someone else tells me to. I have friends that have lots of friends themselves, and I have friends that nobody else can tolerate. As long as I can tolerate them, nobody else needs to worry about it. I don't do the kindergarten mindset that if X isn't my friend, then you can't be friends with them either.
It's simple, really. Stick by the ones that stick by you. And don't believe everything you hear about me. I don't believe all the bad I've heard about you. I just believe in how you treat me, and I would hope you do the same. If not, well then I don't feel so bad about blocking you after all.
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