why I can't be on facebook!
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 9:46AM Courtney With Avery sick with RSV and me having some of her symptoms, this week has been a lazy one. Lazy for me equals having my laptop by me and Avery getting her fair dose of Chuggington and reading. I can usually find enough stuff to do with a research paper due in a week, Google reader with over 500 subscriptions and the articles I find on twitter but when all are empty or I just don't want to work on school I tend to go to Facebook. I know it seems weird to say its my last resort with how much it is used today and how I feel pressured to start a fan page to make my blog more than I want it to be, for me though, I just cant be on it!
Why you ask?? ......because I am way too passionate these days!
I read what people post and if I feel the post is uneducated, plan out wrong based on facts or really something I just disagree with, I want to say something. I feel this overwhelming urge to post the facts. Sadly this urge for me to comment on things happens all to often. Not sure what to categorize my personality as, (hmm maybe I could do a self analysis for my Psych Paper to figure it out!) but it is a trait I cant seem to get rid of, passionate and letting the difference in opinion bother me.
One thing I feel strongly about is treating everyone equally.
For some reason today when I read someone making fun of men figure skating, someone I do not know at all, I got upset. One, to stereotype anyone for anything is wrong. I know I do it at times, but writing a post about jazz hands, crying and tinkerbell costumes is just plain wrong to me. I have done some ice skating in my life and I sure know how hard it is just for me trying to just skate around for a few laps. I cant imagine the time and energy they put into the sport (which the blog writer disagree with me about, indicating its not a sport, and I am thinking he felt that because it wasn't manly enough). I understand joking around about a costume one is wearing, or man that song is awful, but this was just attacking the whole skating population and indicating how "manly" they were. Maybe I am too liberal in my thinking but no matter how you feel about something, this is not funny its attacking and wrong. I took a step back before commenting in the nicest way possible and realized some people may feel that way about some of the blog post I write about food, pregnancy or how I raise my family. So being good, I just closed Facebook and moved on.
I also must confess that I probably wouldn't have commented in the nicest way possible, that is ANOTHER problem with me when I get passionate about something. I start writing way faster than my head can think and my grammar, spelling and general statement come out totally wrong.
So I have made a decision, my facebook time will be down drastically and as I ponderd making a facebook fan page for Cooking Up A Family its probably not best. I don't think I would get too passionate with my readers, its seems to only be a problem with my personal facebook and the occasional Google reader comment, but I think it would be a gateway back into a facebook addiction, so for now I am staying away!
Hopefully this extra passion I seem to have is just pregnancy hormones and in a few months I can back to a normal calm person but for now I just cant be on facebook!
Reader Comments (2)
Facebook is a huge timesuck for me. I still spend way too much time on it, but the whole time I can hear the minutes ticking away. I wish I had your resolve!
I spend a ton of time on there too. As a matter of fact, I just friended you, so hopefully you'll log on long enough to accept me. :)