The title of this post is inspired by the song that just came up in my Tidal queue ( Read more... )

Back to ranting about Facebook again - in this case a specific friend.

This friend hates Justin Trudeau with a passion. The thing is, he hates him from the position of the left. He is angry over the Liberals handling of the pipeline through BC, and he's resentful of them breaking their promise on election reform ( Read more... )

This showed up in my Facebook feed, posted by an old friend of the family who managed to track me down there a few years back. I friended her back because I had fond memories of taking the ferry over to visit them on their farm when I was very young. It occurred to me later that these were friends who Mom & Dad had made during their earlier, more ( Read more... )

I went onto Facebook and Twitter and asked the same question ( Read more... )

As I get older, and my acquaintances on Facebook get older, I see more and more old person memes. While I am not specifically referring to pictures of old people (though many of them are memes of "gosh, like and share if you are old like me and have these issues"), I am specifically referring to the right-wing memes shared by old people.

Back in ( Read more... )

It seems the latest game is to go through and audit one's friends, looking for things they might have liked in the past that don't mesh with one's current views.

A couple of folks now have expressed concern that their "friends" liked an individual in the past who has since expressed views that make it politically inexpedient to like them now.1 ( Read more... )

Edit: after (rightly) getting called out for a post I made on FB, I've decided to just suspend my account there for awhile. I can't (and shouldn't) try to tell others what to post there, but I can control what I read. I'm tired of wanting to punch my monitor 2-3 times a day because of the toxicity there ( Read more... )

I would drop Facebook if it wasn't my primary contact with a number of good people. That said ( Read more... )