A Social-Media-Hiatus! Social media can be brutal, if you let it, cause it, or even just read it. So many topics are piloted by just wanna bees flying around being something or someone they were never intended to be or should have ever chosen to be. So who you let in to your friends list or even what you a part of whichever group can and will be included in your daily nightmarish activities; if you let it. I have, and it is time to step back and breathe slowly and deeply just to regain my composure, what little I have left.
Listening To: S/T by ‘This Will Destroy You’, often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2005. They typically compose lengthy atmospheric instrumental pieces, featuring layers of effects-laden guitar and a heavy usage of dynamics. It is relaxing, mood inspiring, and very mellowing.
Quote of the Day: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
I love social media, but right now I need a vacation away from it for a while. Why? In the -past weeks the debates on our next presidential candidates are never ending and with each day get more and more hurtful/hateful/dreadful. You have people that surely should have been or be behind bars running for the highest office. You have bullies that seem to get more evil on a daily bases. And the mudslinging on SM, (social media)(get your mind out of the online gutter), is uncontrollable, and for the most part wide open as far as how far anyone can go, and believe me, it has gone much further than it should. Frankly I am more than tired of participating on seeing how far of how much mud I can toss. And it seems every day a person who I have casually called a SM friend, now looks down their nose at me. I can handle it, but I just don’t need it right now. Let the circus run its show. You can get where everything stands while you drink your morning coffee and listen to the nights headlines. It has gotten totally nasty and almost to the point of sickening.
So for a while, maybe forever, I am ditching Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and maybe others and let them hash it all out without me. I just don’t have the energy right now. I know after 30 days twitter w3ill give me the permanent boot, Facebook can allow you to disable the account but to delete it you have to sort of kiss someone’s ass to get that done and Instagram, I really don’t know except I can reactivate it if and when I choose to. Actually Instagram is not usually a problem for me as I don’t get political or personal there but I still wanted to let it too go for right now.
I still have my Pinterest alive and kicking, as it’s more interesting rather than a bunch of asshats yelling at each other over who said what to whom for whatever the reason. To me its more about images, and maybe a story tied to those images. And my accounts at Google+ and Linked-In don’t get much use anyways so they are staying. My Smugmug page will always be available.
Time to Relax. So my hiatus begins now as I plan to focus a lot more articles here on my last page I will ever develop, and this one is for me and no one else in particular to be honest. I will get into a wide range of topics from my Illness back in 2010, to the work I did in motorsports, to a lot of ups and downs in my roads traveled to get here. Right now my family is in peril. That also has a huge impact on my online activity. Actually I will probably lean on this page to help me deal with what’s happening around me at this time, more on that later.
And so I begin, my Social-Media-Hiatus.