Snapped

[smokingboot]

Well, for god's sake.

I tend to stay off FB now, except in the mornings to wish people happy birthdays. But I try to keep my involvement down to 20 minutes, no more. The first thing I saw was a sort of minor friend ... not someone I know well but a pleasant enough gentleman... losing the plot with a few added expletives. And I just sounded off right back and defriended him.

Silly of me really, he's in general a fine sort as far as I know, and he wasn't being a bloody racist which seems to be an increasing rarity. He was probably just reacting to the manipulation of tragedy by FB, and I should have just let it slide, but couldn't hack the aggression and the swearing first thing. Hard cussing doesn't even bother me that much normally, it was just a moment's WT? like walking into a communal kitchen to find someone shouting at me. Now things are going to be awkward between us next time we meet. I'll try to make it OK without being dishonest; fact is he kicked off mighty hard. But it has been a while since I knee-jerked... Actually, no it hasn't. Last time was the death of Aylan Kurdi. All this stuff about refugees/wars and long term crap in the middle east is just getting to me. But this article may well help keep me on track.http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/no-piers-morgan-how-destroy-islamic-state-1630388804

Oh, life is better when I don't spend time on FB. Then I tried to get on with research, only to suddenly come down with the most incredible migraine as I was reading about Tolkein and the war, it was so weird,the way it always has been weird, the glorious gift of an over-active imagination. For a moment I had this vision of the trenches and a young man smiling at me, then suddenly I got that wiggly sight through water that, for me, usually heralds the start of a migraine, and away we went, no more screenwork - in fact, no more anything requiring open eyes - for much of the day.

Still, I am much better now. And tomorrow will be better still.

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I have things arranged on FB so that I don't have to see what I don't want to see - which means staying away from people I know on LJ as much as I can, looking at pictures of bears and gardens, and filtering out anyone who irritates me. I feel somewhat detached from the idiocy on LJ now that I'm no longer posting but I still find myself irked by friends and ex-friends who believe that John Lennon's 'Imagine' and what it proselytises for is an answer to IS or any other of our current ills and say so ad nauseum. No, it's not. The vapid ideology and lack of fibre that it preaches is part of the problem.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Oscar Wilde defined a gentleman as someone who never offended anyone unintentionally. Holding that in mind has massively curtailed (and improved) what I post on Facebook.