Day 89 Part 2: No lie, every day I read Facebook and the treasure chest of complaints by people who have no realization of just how boring life can be. If you're "literally" offended, upset and almost killed by someone each and every day; If you actually spend five days in the hospital a month for emergencies, If you actually have so little money that you are completely stressed by your vacation only being ten weeks....newsflash. About 90% of us want your Expendables 3, Grey's Anatomy, Donald Trump life. I, for one, will trade with you tomorrow! #100DaysOFHopper
Day 90: We all have our friends, we have our causes and we have that which is truly important to us. Because of social media, we also feel the need, at times, to stress these views. The problem is that we don't control thoughts. Many of skip the comments or disregard them as we peruse, the often times, repetitive banter. I think that's a mistake.
I find that reading the comments gives us insight and awareness. One into the minds of those the original poster surrounds themselves with, but also into the true background of the OP and his or her mind.
The comments show us whether the OP surrounds themselves with people who are generally intelligent or generally stupid, educated or not, happy or angry, republican or democrat, prejudiced or tolerant, lazy or motivated, a follower or leader, informed or misinformed, but most of all it tells us if the OP is all of these.
As usual, I won't out the person, but someone just this morning posted something and within only a handful of comments, one could surmise many things.
1. The commenter's didn't read the OPs article, just their synopsis.
2. They commenter's responses were almost canned, or trained answers.
3. In one case, the responder was passionate and sincere, but had no insight into one crucial piece of information, thus destroying their credibility and their argument for any reader that did.
4. That the OP scared away any negative comments, by having like-minded people commend them within minutes, not for one second, ever disagreeing with even one point.
5. That the OP was unaware that some of the comments were inaccurate and/or made lazily without reading the actual item posted.
So what does one take away? It's difficult, because as someone who read the OP's initial statement, then their link and then their friends comments, I went down a slope. Their initial statement, I embraced and agreed with 95%. Their article was biased, but basically all factual, still the heavy-handedness left me at about 85% agreement. Then their prejudice, oft-bigoted friend's views left me angered and made me question my friends sincerity to seeing both sides of a coin.this left me at about 60% agreement.
Now, anyone reading this is probably saying "Yeah Hopper, but not everyone reads it all, thinks about what was said and then takes away a view based on all of the information you mentioned. Some of us just know how we feel."
And that my friends is why our world is falling apart. #100DaysOfHopper
Day 90: We all have our friends, we have our causes and we have that which is truly important to us. Because of social media, we also feel the need, at times, to stress these views. The problem is that we don't control thoughts. Many of skip the comments or disregard them as we peruse, the often times, repetitive banter. I think that's a mistake.
I find that reading the comments gives us insight and awareness. One into the minds of those the original poster surrounds themselves with, but also into the true background of the OP and his or her mind.
The comments show us whether the OP surrounds themselves with people who are generally intelligent or generally stupid, educated or not, happy or angry, republican or democrat, prejudiced or tolerant, lazy or motivated, a follower or leader, informed or misinformed, but most of all it tells us if the OP is all of these.
As usual, I won't out the person, but someone just this morning posted something and within only a handful of comments, one could surmise many things.
1. The commenter's didn't read the OPs article, just their synopsis.
2. They commenter's responses were almost canned, or trained answers.
3. In one case, the responder was passionate and sincere, but had no insight into one crucial piece of information, thus destroying their credibility and their argument for any reader that did.
4. That the OP scared away any negative comments, by having like-minded people commend them within minutes, not for one second, ever disagreeing with even one point.
5. That the OP was unaware that some of the comments were inaccurate and/or made lazily without reading the actual item posted.
So what does one take away? It's difficult, because as someone who read the OP's initial statement, then their link and then their friends comments, I went down a slope. Their initial statement, I embraced and agreed with 95%. Their article was biased, but basically all factual, still the heavy-handedness left me at about 85% agreement. Then their prejudice, oft-bigoted friend's views left me angered and made me question my friends sincerity to seeing both sides of a coin.this left me at about 60% agreement.
Now, anyone reading this is probably saying "Yeah Hopper, but not everyone reads it all, thinks about what was said and then takes away a view based on all of the information you mentioned. Some of us just know how we feel."
And that my friends is why our world is falling apart. #100DaysOfHopper
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