{"id":1671,"date":"2013-10-16T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2013-10-16T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:00:10","slug":"facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I had a conversation not long ago about Facebook. She started the conversation by stating that it was a huge waist of time, people are in your business, etc. I agreed to most of it, yet continued to Facebook on. Then, last week, I realized what she was stating.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It seems we have a bunch of folks who are our &#8220;friends&#8221;, but never take time to call, come by to visit, or even email us. I guess I am getting old, but it seems so ridiculous. I deleted my account, and for a week after I found myself almost in a withdrawal state. What would I do with all these extra minutes in my life? Seriously, I found myself grabbing my phone to see what the latest posts might be, etc. Finally it sat in that I had made a change. No more Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I know, with the business and all maybe I should still have an account. I also know that folks do keep in touch this way &#8211; BUT hey we all have phones in our pockets. PHONES and invention for voice communication. Here are my observations of Facebook lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comments can be taken wrongly.<\/li>\n<li>Normally one will feel safe to say what ever they want behind the screen of their phone or other media device &#8211; yet would never say it to someones face.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of folks just &#8220;friend&#8221; you &#8211; then quietly nose into your business. Those same folks never call, write, come by, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Gossip<\/li>\n<li>Recipes &#8211; really? When have you ever just sat down with me and we talk about recipes for hours? Yeah &#8211; that&#8217;s what I thought. I would rather just eat!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Selfies&#8221; &#8211; oh man &#8211; seriously. There are men &#8211; mostly teenage boys even doing this now. Wow? Self promotion. I see grown men doing this and well &#8211; it is pathetic.<\/li>\n<li>Political crap.<\/li>\n<li>Opinions &#8211; see here is the deal. There are a lot of you who feel you have a &#8220;right&#8221; to share your opinion on Facebook, but for the most part are to cowardly to share it in person.<\/li>\n<li>Security issues with sharing your every move, place, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and the list goes on. I could just keep coming up with reasons &#8211; good and bad. For the most part, we have found that not having Facebook is a good thing. There is no chance for cyber-bulling, cyber-depression (from coveting someones &#8220;online life&#8221;), etc.<\/p>\n<p>Keagan and Jace have deleted their accounts as well &#8211; we have found that there is more conversation, more interaction, etc. Sure, we still watch TV, and surf the internet, but we don&#8217;t waist time with &#8220;online&#8221; friends. We give that time to family, and friends around us.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so there is the rant of the week. Now, take a kid hunting or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I had a conversation not long ago about Facebook. She started the conversation by stating that it was a huge waist of time, people are in your business, etc. I agreed to most of it, yet continued to Facebook on. 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