I've gotten really good at weeding out the crap I don't want to see or her about which is the stuff that stresses me out and interrupts my goal of having a pleasant life.
I also have an app installed that allows me to enter words or phrases to filter out that I don't wish to appear in my news feed.
I am so thankful for whoever designs those kinds of apps and lets me use them...for free, no less.
I hope they know the service they are providing to my well-being.
Unfortunately, because there are now myriads of potential land mines in the let's-be-offended-about-every-single-thing climate that we now live in, I would have to quit my day job (if I had one) to spend each day thinking about and adding all of the words and phrases I don't want to her about. So occasionally some things I don't want to see will slip through and that happened this morning.
I follow a very famous artist who makes really happy artwork.
I follow her because I like to be happy and I like artwork.
I do not follow her because I want to know about her political beliefs.
I do not follow her because I want to know what offends her.
I do not follow her because I want to know anything other than her pretty artwork.
Sadly, she doesn't care what I follow her for.
You see, she has fallen victim to I-KNOW-YOU-STARTED-FOLLOWING-ME-FOR-MY-ARTWORK/MUSIC/WRITING/ACTING/COOKING/ETC-BUT-I-NOW-HAVE-AN-OPINION-ABOUT-SOMETHING-POLITICAL/SOCIAL-THAT-I-AM-GOING-TO-TELL-YOU-ABOUT-EVEN-THOUGH-IT-HAS-NOTHING-TO-DO-WITH-WHY-YOU-FOLLOW-ME syndrome...
and, by God, is she ever going to let you know about it because she has a gazillion followers and - wow! - isn't it so great that she can use all of them to foist her opinion(s) on them even though that is not why they follow her at all.
Talk about being an opportunist.
Talk about bait and switch.
Talk about getting hoodwinked.
One more thing to add to the list and unfollow.
I'm pretty sure that pretty soon there won't be much left to follow.
I wish this kind of thing would stop but in a world of I MUST BE INDIGNANT ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING...it doesn't seem likely.
I just wish they knew
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Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
Thank you, too, for not spamming and trolling anonymously.
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