Glam, I am sorry. I left all of the Hillary FB groups except the very first one I ever joined. They were driving me nuts.
I know we post here, and we all have uses for Twitter and FB to varying degrees but I can't help that all the social media isn't...a good thing. And there's no going back. It's all become overwhelmingly depressing and upsetting to me. No one gives anyone the benefit of the doubt, or pays attention to nuance, or displays a generosity of spirit. It's just about tearing eachother down and having the pithiest soundbite go viral.
I think it's terrible for America and it culminated in this election. I still may deactivate my accounts because they are an addiction for me in so much as I cannot STOP RAGING AGAINST THE MACHINE.
I can't pull myself up out of despair.
I'm in that pit with you.
I went to bed at 7:30 last night, and slept, in fits, until 6:30 this morning. I feel marginally better today.
I still may deactivate my accounts because they are an addiction for me in so much as I cannot STOP RAGING AGAINST THE MACHINE.
I don't WANT to deactivate my accounts, I feel like I know more about what's really goin gon through FB and Twitter than the news, but even so, I'm like you, Nanita, it's almost addicting and it does not make me feel better.
I'm struggling not to slip back into the pit of despair I was in most of the year. I feel like Trump and his deplorable base has robbed me of my spirit.
I feel like I know more about what's really going on through FB and Twitter than the news,
This, and the connection I have with a few key people, is why I haven't yet. But I also don't know if keeping up with the news this way is helpful for me, either.
The latest thing I shared on FB (these awesome buttons) has brought out the annoying commentators. I'm trying to decide if I have the energy to engage.
hugs everyone here
I'm so sorry that so many of you are dealing with trolls. I still think the internet has more upside than downside, but it can be so hard to figure out how to avoid the bad. Also, I love this place, in case I hadn't said it recently.
Those attitudes are all over Pantsuit Nation and it doesn't feel like a welcoming, supportive place at all for me anymore. I'm done.
That is so disappointing!
As I've said elsewhere (I think just elsewhere) I'm watching the Million Woman March/Women's March on Washington stuff like a car crash at this point, but I'm otherwise trying to stay out of it.
Fuck Cancer! Gwen Ifill of PBS News passed away today. [link] I had no idea she was ill.
Calli, I would love to, thank you! I can bring booze and dessert.
This, and the connection I have with a few key people, is why I haven't yet. But I also don't know if keeping up with the news this way is helpful for me, either.
Nanita, I feel the same way. I also can't keep up with the sheer volume. I'm crazy busy at work, and I feel like my second job, always, is getting a full night's sleep every night because of my epilepsy. And I have to do whatever I need to do in order to make sure that happens. Which makes my life a little smaller, but I can't afford to have a seizure and have to give up driving for six months, risk injury, etc. So I only keep up to a certain extent, anyway, and even that is starting to feel toxic. But then I swing back to feeling like the knowledge and the connections are necessary. Can't decide!
Glam, that sucks. I have seen this happen all over the place, and it never ceases to disappoint and enrage.
Gwen Ifill, really? Damnit.
