Disclaimer: I'm just venting here. I haven't been getting much sleep.
it's official. Signed at 10:33. It's even passed on TV. Facebook will start charging this summer. If you copy this to your wall, your icon will turn blue and your Facebook will be free for you. Please pass this message; if not, your icon will be deleted.
P.S.:
Mine really turned blue. Don’t forget tomorrow starts the new Facebook (aka...new name, META) rule where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!! I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The violation of privacy can be punished by law. NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this.
If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile and status updates.
DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste.
Here is how you do that:
Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy.” Then go to your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste.
This will bypass the system. Thanks Bye Bye ads
Yessssss it works!!!
Omg it worked !!! Update
To regain friends in your news feed and get rid of ads - Hold your finger anywhere in this post and click ′copy’. Go to your page where it says ‘What's on your mind?’ Tap your finger anywhere in the blank field. Click paste. This upgrades the system.
Hello new and old friends!🥰
It's sad we have to keep doing this to kill the Ads and see our friends.
Hello new and old friends🤗
Sorry to stereotype (I’m not, actually. I think this is a fair one), but the 11th time I see a post like this plastered unabashedly on someone’s Facebook page is around the time that I start despising their political views and frankly the information they choose to share. Is it lead poisoning or is it a desire to be led? No idea. This begs the question - is it worth engaging these people in a conversation or would I have to dramatize to them, say that hard-earned American journalist jobs are at risk if they don’t stop digesting tabloids like they digest their Chick-fil-A (I still eat Chick-fil-A too, but allow me to stereotype please)? I wonder every day if I’m being unfair in my two-dimensionalizing of complex people with their own careers, children, societal contributions, and, unfortunately, thumbs.
“Do not engage with people on that side” is something I’ve been told. Hundreds of times. As a child I wasn’t allowed out with “bad influences,” which is not a foreign concept to a parent trying to raise a child. Recently I was engaged in a riveting conversation with an elderly woman who grew up without a god and will die without one. The comfort that came with conversing with someone so…sure of her stance made me feel like I was speaking to a mentor. I digress. After an in-depth conversation about my former political stances, where I've been, and where I am, she placed her slightly tremoring hand on mine and said “don’t engage with them. They’ll never change sides because they’re committed to not knowing the truth. They’ll never change.” but as the words left her mouth her nose wrinkled as her face twisted gently, her eyes wandering to the corner of the room with a new thought: “Though…you did.”
I don't know what caused me to switch sides so drastically, but I'm not sure how much it has to do with morality. I have a new and different concept of what's right than I did 10 years ago, but until I understand why I won't feel comfortable with the whiplash.
I have to believe that there is a third dimension beyond the two of liking people and disliking people. A third dimension beyond a dumbass and a smartass, beyond red and blue, beyond engaging in conflict and letting the wrong thing fester. But if there is, what is it? Pacifism? Activism? Active pacifism? The most popular example of a savior, Jesus Christ, was a mix of both (if that’s worth mentioning). His scale was heavy on the pacifist side. Activists love flipping tables and pacifists love being martyred, though. Where’s the middle? I’ve heard the answer spoken to me in the form of morals, the Holy Spirit, the Law and constitution, and the Gut.
The Enneagram, AKA Christian Horoscope (kidding, it's a useful tool to learn about your own motivations and the ways that they can healthily interact with others), is a presentation of nature vs nurture in your own personality and how it impacts day-to-day life. There are 9 boxes you can put yourself in, but the overall goal is balance. If your tendencies and motivations are perfectly balanced between the 9, you've won. This is an impossible task, however, because I think it's impossible to choose what motivates your inner child. Your parents did that before you could think. The reason I bring this up is that maybe it's all about balancing what you can, and recognizing what you can't. If that's how you win, I think I'm just realizing where the starting line is.
What I'm recognizing is this: the boundaries that I have set for self-preservation keep out negativity, but they also keep out connections with some of my loved ones. I'll cling tightly to my own worldview because it is my sense of reality. I can't give it up, but neither can they.
I wonder if it's just a matter of showing up, sharing a meal, and hugging. Common ground may not be found in worldviews, but rather in physical action. Finding somewhere in the middle is the beginning of balance, right?
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