Snooze Facebook

The snooze option on Facebook is bullshit — it’s dangerous.

Fuck me for being an optimist about people — why the hell would I expect someone to have some kind of sea change? Because I believe people can change.

I had silenced someone because I found them offensive, and my thinking at that point was, when I have someone I know, who I occasionally have to interact with, unfriending them can be more trouble than it is worth, because people do notice these things.

So today they resurfaced, and the person was complaining about how her and her ilk are sick and tired of being called Nazis. Someone repeated a bullshit line about Nazis being socialists, and Democrats being socialists, and therefore actually Nazis. So, before my brain started to leak out of my nose, I digitally buried the person.

I fucking hate what social media has become. I sometimes feel like those psychics you see in drama who when the talent kicks in, suddenly have the voices of everyone spilling into their mind. Who needs it? It would be a little more tolerable if it was all sparkling wit like Oscar Wilde, but often it is like an open sewer, and it is worse if it comes from people you had not yet identified as having monstrous views.

I can’t hang with that.

I have had Facebook mostly for work, and as a means of contact for a while. I still dig the occasional nugget out of the shitpile, but it is horrendous a fair amount of the time. X I flushed an age ago. What else do I need to kick?