(08-02-2021, 08:27 PM)Jags Wrote:

(08-02-2021, 08:21 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I'm no longer on FB because nearly everyone I know got stupid and started sharing all their thoughts and opinions about everything. I miss seeing long distance friends and family updates and photos and such but the snarky comments from both sides made it insufferable. Also having your own words twisted and used as an argument just to prove a point, valid or not, is just wrong.

Back when FB was a thing, I realized real quick not to have a part in it. Just the sheer fact that having hundreds or thousands of “friends” was (at the time) what made you successful, I said [BLEEP] that.  No one has that many friends.  I’m not going to friend some guy or girl I bought a set of tires from.  I give you cash, I get tires.  End of transaction.  We don’t need to make this a thing.  You’re friends with a friend of mine? So who the [BLEEP] cares? That alone told me to stay away.  I luckily never had to experience what you explained.  Screw that. I’m not fake to people in real life.  I sure as hell won’t be online.  Better for me to stay away. That and I’m sure there is a dozen or so hotties trying to hit me up.  No bueno when you’re married.

All of my friends on FB were people I actually know, even a couple of guys from this message board who I met at Jaguars training camps and tailgates, some who are not on here anymore and some no longer with us at all. And family, of course, all of whom are long distance. I followed a couple of cat rescue groups and the Jaguars and the National Hurricane Center/NOAA. That was it. No random people I don't actually know in life. 

That made it hard when people started going full stupid with their opinions about things because I started seeing a side of them I had no idea was there. I never realized how much politics and religious beliefs were so intertwined with many of them and last year it seemed their political stance became more important than their faith which freaked me out. So I had to let it go and I don't miss it.

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