Your Smartphone makes you dumber!

[Bob Williams]

Don’t have much time for people like that Steve, and won’t add comments to any posts like that. It’s a reaction that they want and if everyone learned not to give it to them, they would slink off somewhere else. I keep my page just for family and friends. For instance: I have a niece whose husband was a big, fit lad, rugby player and health nut. He had a major stroke a few years ago and was almost completely paralysed. She gave up work as a Supervisor in a Care Home, to look after him. Gradually she is nursing him back towards better health, but it’s been a long hard job for her, she is a small, slim lass but has proved to be a tough one.

Today she gave a description of how he enjoyed watching the British Lions beating New Zealand, he was cheering them on and she says it brought her to tears to see him showing recovery signs like that. The whole family were on FB, supporting her, (including Uncle Bob). The older nieces and nephews were only a few years younger than me and I grew up with them, it’s great to keep in touch with them.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

Bob Williams wrote:

Richard, FB is not the ogre you think, it is the way it is used by people who have too much time and either too little, or too much, imagination, with too little intelligence. If I am bothered by someone, I just block them. The friends and family I contact, are all fine. I did have had occasion to block 2 (not close) family members and they no longer throw foul language and evil gossip around on my page. Without FB, I would not be in touch with my nieces and nephews, giving me news of their doings and their welfare, from all over the world. I am constantly amazed and often delighted at the results from the marriage of my parents in 1926. They would be just as amazed.

I can easily go along with what you said, remember I objected to the faceplant bunch, FB is simply a platform that can be used in good ways or in less salubrious ways. My wife sometimes uses it but get complaints from a relation who thinks she should totally change her life to suit the relation’s view of the world. Having her own mind and shedload of issues to handle she does not agree… Somehow posting views of hospital visits and the like does not suit my wife’s view of great things to post. Since she is largely house bound these days the chance to take other images is very limited. Our attempt at ‘family meal’ was a total disaster due to ‘issues which arose before the three of us arrived’ when daughter had another melt down. Taking and posting photographs would not have improved that ‘ambiance’!

[Richard]

The Duke wrote:

Facebook I find is a place of perpetual depression. People only show the good bits of their life, so others get a bit jealous, and then show their “perfect” life back. So the first is a bit jealous of the second, and the second jealousy of the first. And so the cycle goes, for literally billions of people. Basically everyone is looking at the “greener field”, that doesn’t exist.

Steve, that is all too often my wife’s view of human nature and mine as well, experience can be a harsh teacher. My wife has also taken to blocking those whose dedication is to highlighting the mistreatment of others. She has no interest in mistreatment videos so the posters are banned.

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