About Facebook...

I am a fan of Facebook. It’s the only social media I take much active part in, and I spend more time than I should over there, just scrolling and laughing with my kids and checking in on nieces and nephews. 

I post things, too. About blog posts, book releases, book sales, sunrises, and my grandkids. (My cats are snobs—I don’t post about them.) I tell everyone Happy Birthday, mourn losses with people to whom I have a vicarious online attachment, and pray for whoever asks for it. I laugh uproariously sometimes and pass things on— “Did you see this? Isn’t it a hoot?” I “hide” posts because they are hateful, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, mean, stupid, obscene, profane for the sake of profanity, or not the truth.

I don’t unfriend many people, although there have been a few. An inspirational author who requested that people “unfriend me now” if they disagreed with something she said. So I did. A writer to whom I had donated money in her Gofundme account because she was ill, who thought her atheism (which is certainly her business and her right) made me open game. It didn’t.

Mostly, these days, I “share” things which are funny, inspirational, or particularly

beautiful. If I have friends with new releases (other than our own Kristi’s, whose last one I missed--her cover's right there. Isn't it cool?) I try to pass the word. I “like” a lot of cats, babies, and puns.

But here's what I don't do, and I’m going to make another list. (I may need some counseling or a 12-step-program about lists—I’m making a lot of them these days.) Please add to it or show us your own .

1. I don't say Amen when someone says I must if I believe in God. My belief is all about Him and not about you at all.
2. I don't repeat or "share" anything until I've checked its accuracy.
3. I don't spread falsehoods or hurtful memes about your political candidate.
4. If you spread them about mine, I "hide" the posts and become all the more determined to vote both my conscience and my heart. It is my hope you do the same thing.
5. If you send me flowers, I send you a smiley face and say Thank You, but I'm not going to send them to 15 of my closest friends. 
6. If a post isn't fairly literate, I'm not going to read it.
7. If anyone's naked, I'm hiding it. Naked has plenty of really good and interesting places to be--my Facebook page isn't one of them.
8. If the picture's gruesome, I'm hiding it.
9. If there are more f-bombs in a post than there are other words, I'm hiding it. I'm not a prude, but I am one of those who think if you have to swear every other word, your vocabulary's seriously stunted and what you say is boring.
10. I love our country, the American flag, the pledge of allegiance, the national anthem, and our military. I do not feel compelled to try to force you to feel the same way about them as I do.

Next? What are your social media loves and hates?

Happy Halloween and have a great week!