*Disclaimer:

If you think this is about you, it probably is. But don’t think I’m judging your or actually really mad at you. I just want it to be known that just because I, and others, aren’t the Facebook warrior type, it doesn’t mean we are silent or that we don’t care. <3 you!

 

I keep seeing posts on my Facebook from numerous people, basically calling out people like me, who are not posting political things, who don’t want to see political things, and who are not getting into long drawn out discussions about political things.

Because we are not doing this, we must not care, we must be oblivious, we must be hiding our heads under the sand or ignoring things and being terrible people who want to sit inside of our castles of privilege and not pay attention to anything but ourselves.

I just wanted to write that, at least in my case,  YOU ARE WRONG. I don’t want to do that on Facebook. It’s not the place for it in my life. It is like being physically slapped every time someone says something like that and I have to hold back my thoughts because I simply just DO NOT want to talk about it on stupid FACEBOOK.

Where else would I talk about things like this with people that I care about?

Good question.

I dunno. Most people on that site are not people I interact with anywhere else, and I suppose that is why they use that place so vehemently, because they know they can reach people who otherwise wouldn’t see it. I get that, sure go ahead. I suppose if I really felt the need to talk to someone I could private message them and talk there, but I haven’t felt the need to do that and therefore, I have not.

The point of my little rant is that I have opinions and thoughts and cares and beliefs about a lot of things…

I just don’t want to talk about it on that site.

As I get more information and more comfortable, I’ll post more of my opinions here. Nobody has interacted with me here, and that’s fine. It probably means they don’t give two craps about my opinions and that is most certainly fine as well.

 

But for me… Facebook is just isn’t a soap box (Please see this post for more detail on what I want Facebook to be in my life), and while I don’t deny others the right to talk about it all they want (and that’s why I choose not to comment and to just move on)… It doesn’t mean I don’t care because I’m not talking about it on Facebook. Seriously… stop that. You’re hurting more than just my feelings.

 

It’s like saying if you don’t eat at this restaurant for dinner, then you don’t really like food. Excuse me? I love food. I just don’t eat there for dinner.

 

Clear enough?

 

I love my Facebook peeps, they are generally some of the most amazing people I know. I just don’t always agree with them and that is just okie dokie artichokie.

 

Meanwhile, in order to keep my sanity I have started to post a cute picture of a baby animal for every post that makes me want to punch a wall. It’s quite therapeutic. I am even more glad to know that it has been helping other people to smile, so I’ll keep doing it.

 

Use Facebook for whatever you want, just don’t categorize Facebook activism as the only way a person can show that they care.

 

Thanks 🙂