I find myself getting on the F-book less and less. People are always arguing and posting things I disagree with but there's no point in mentioning that I disagree because I don't want to argue. All I wants is to know what is up with the people I care about who live far away from me and who I would lose all contact with except for the convenience of the technology that is the F-book. Unlike the people who complain about people posting life accomplishments/milestones/travesties, I want to know who is getting married, who is having a baby (after years of infertility, some of them!), who is moving somewhere exotic that I can both envy and pity, who needs extra prayers because they lost a job/got a horrible diagnosis/lost a loved one/are simply having a terrible time with life. (I take praying for people by name seriously, which can mess with my and the husband's brain sometimes as we try to remember everybody every night.)
But people posting things about how awful other people are makes me grumpy. And people fighting over politics makes me want to punch the screen. That said, I can't imagine how the Obamas think they are raising a generation to their end of the political spectrum by messing with kids' school lunches. Every time I see what kids are being offered at school, or an article about it, all I can think is, "Michelle should not be surprised when, over the next ten years the newest voters all go Republican because kids still blame her for starving during middle/high school."
Still, as tempted as I've been, I can't quite quit the F-book. I've lived in too many different places and have friends/family that I care about deeply scattered much too far to keep track of any other way. Although if I were blessed to have stayed in one place since high school, with the vast majority of my family and friends still nearby, I think I could do it. Face to face interaction is so much better.
Speaking of which, here is the cutest face to face interaction I saw today:
(Daddy is jumping out from the bathroom to scare us.)