Dear FB Community, If you dont think how you behave here matters it does. In the last year FB helped me to clarify friend from foe. I was swayed to choose a couple of poets over others, for Brightly Press, by their benevolence on FB. Ive had a several people send me messages saying that they were grateful for a Like I gave them because it made them feel seen or that they mattered. I also know that some people intentionally dont Like certain peoples posts because they hope to harm them or make them feel excluded. Very sad, feel free to unfriend me if you are one of these people because that is really lame. I also know others have used FB as a tool of hierarchy, a way to prove that they are in a certain class of people Those who are followed versus followers themselves - gag! I dont like the term follower either but to these I say, you arent as special as your negative-ego has led you to believe. That line of thinking is very narcissistic. If Im friends with people here it is because I believe in equality and enjoy seeing what everyone posts. As for chat, time constraints and scams limit my use of chat with the entirety of the people Im friends with but, hopefully you get the gist of what Im saying, FB is meant to be a friendly place. I have had dozens of people tell me that a FB Like has cheered them up when they were depressed. Others have said that comments and Likes have lifted their confidence before a job interview. This is both good and bad. Of course, I hope people find love and feel loved beyond FB, this is too tenuous a venue to rely on, but it can make a difference in someones day. I try to share the love as much as I can because one never knows what another is going through out there. Nobody could Like all of their friends posts all of the time but I do what I can because it only takes a second. If I havent Liked anything of yours lately I hope to get to you soon. I still dont know why I see certain peoples posts in my stream and not others, a FB mystery. I manually travel to the pages when people go missing. I wish they would eliminate the ads and let everybodys posts stream down the line. Lastly, for the cynical or snarky among us, I do not say this to rally more Likes to myself, although they are always welcome, but rather to clarify that how we treat one another matters. I for one am glad that I Liked all of my now deceased friend Chermis posts. Since I hadnt had time to see her in person, I wanted her to know that I cared. She wrote back and said, Im just glad to know you are still there. Joy & peace, Kelle
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:39:17 +0000
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